Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.
No artist that beefs with me or talks down on my name has that many platinum songs. They're all gold.
We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.
Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
I've got a room full of gold and platinum records, a lot of them are Canadian, and I've got a very soft spot for that country.
My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.
I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
