Gene Simmons Quotes

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

The fans make the person a star.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.