Paul Stanley Quotes

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.

The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.