Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
Chaim Witz, known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor and television personality. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded with rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley in the early 1970s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1949
CityTirat Carmel, Israel
CountryUnited States of America
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
We're starting a cable network and a boxing venture, getting involved in Indy car racing, Warner Brothers is starting work on the 'KISS Babies' cartoon show, and the KISS Broadway musical is commencing production.
Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.
So you had people coming in with scissors, you know, 'my mom's a hair stylist,' or a toothbrush, 'my dad's a dentist,' and my son came in with a poster of me spewing blood and spitting fire,
If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.
Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
If you go back and check all the reviews for all the icons of today -- Elvis, the Beatles and so on -- they were dismissed as flashes in the pans,
He's just a good competitor, he has a good attitude about things. He's even a better competitor than I thought he was.
How can you not be attracted to this sport? It's a hair-trigger sport where one sneeze at 230 mph gets you in trouble.
Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.
Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.
What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.