Gene Simmons Quotes

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.

I drank, smoked and did drugs to get where I'm at.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

I'm very fond of drugs.

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Should someone go to jail for just doing drugs? I believe the time has come for that to end.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.