Gene Simmons

I was afraid of crossing the street because cars were going by. I didn't understand it. So I walked around the block, and I saw other houses next to each other. I said, this is like, where are all these houses? Everybody's rich. Yeah, everybody's rich. And I went to the other side of the street, and then I had to come back and went a little further, then eventually went around.

I thought if I went around, I'd get lost. I didn't know that came around to this. I know it sounds stupid.

I thought if I went around, I'd get lost. I didn't know that came around to this. I know it sounds stupid.

And on the other side, eventually, I saw some guys walking playing marbles on the grass, which would be, I don't know if you have a marble or something. And they're throwing it like this. It's not what we did in Israel. You stood up on two legs, and you went like that, and you get really good, because you can aim it on the ground if you do the marbles like that.

And on the other side, eventually, I saw some guys walking playing marbles on the grass, which would be, I don't know if you have a marble or something. And they're throwing it like this. It's not what we did in Israel. You stood up on two legs, and you went like that, and you get really good, because you can aim it on the ground if you do the marbles like that.

You know, the ground would make the marble another thing. And what are you, stupid? Can't you speak English? I don't know. God, it's an idiot. i play i play they go yeah here they gave me a marble or two i won all their marbles they didn't laugh for long Yeah. I still have all the marbles I want, about 80 of them. Really? In an old Dutch master's cigar box.

You know, the ground would make the marble another thing. And what are you, stupid? Can't you speak English? I don't know. God, it's an idiot. i play i play they go yeah here they gave me a marble or two i won all their marbles they didn't laugh for long Yeah. I still have all the marbles I want, about 80 of them. Really? In an old Dutch master's cigar box.

To remind me, don't ever take shit from anybody. Just roll up your sleeves and go to work.

To remind me, don't ever take shit from anybody. Just roll up your sleeves and go to work.

I've never been scared, not after my mother survived Nazi Germany, but I've always felt like an outsider. I still don't feel like an outsider. Maybe that's okay. Maybe I want to be like everybody else. I want to be an ordinary guy. No, I don't want to be an ordinary guy. I want to be an extraordinary guy. I want to excel at anything that I try to do, and I'm willing to work harder than you do.

I've never been scared, not after my mother survived Nazi Germany, but I've always felt like an outsider. I still don't feel like an outsider. Maybe that's okay. Maybe I want to be like everybody else. I want to be an ordinary guy. No, I don't want to be an ordinary guy. I want to be an extraordinary guy. I want to excel at anything that I try to do, and I'm willing to work harder than you do.

And the only thing that prevented me from getting into sports and everything else is because the pragmatism in me tells me that you've got a short life. When you enter sports or things like that, if you get an ankle, you're done. But I can be a banker or a lawyer or a teacher, I think, forever. It made more sense, and therefore more dollars.

And the only thing that prevented me from getting into sports and everything else is because the pragmatism in me tells me that you've got a short life. When you enter sports or things like that, if you get an ankle, you're done. But I can be a banker or a lawyer or a teacher, I think, forever. It made more sense, and therefore more dollars.

Yes, if you're lucky, because every kid in every poor neighborhood wants to be the baseball player or the football player and stuff like that, because 50 million, Carmelo Anthony made it. And for a while, I worked with Carmelo. They make all this money.

Yes, if you're lucky, because every kid in every poor neighborhood wants to be the baseball player or the football player and stuff like that, because 50 million, Carmelo Anthony made it. And for a while, I worked with Carmelo. They make all this money.

You don't see the tens of thousands and millions of carcasses on the side of the road that wanted to put all their eggs in one basket and achieve nothing. You only see the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, the winners. Oh, that means anybody can do it. That's a fallacy.

You don't see the tens of thousands and millions of carcasses on the side of the road that wanted to put all their eggs in one basket and achieve nothing. You only see the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, the winners. Oh, that means anybody can do it. That's a fallacy.

I didn't put the two and two equals four thing together. I was more an observer on life because in America, there were so many attention deficit disorders, so many different things going by. There was sports and television and radio and all that stuff going by. And so I worked. And when I was about 13, I came home. Yes, I worked on Sundays and Sunday nights.

I didn't put the two and two equals four thing together. I was more an observer on life because in America, there were so many attention deficit disorders, so many different things going by. There was sports and television and radio and all that stuff going by. And so I worked. And when I was about 13, I came home. Yes, I worked on Sundays and Sunday nights.

I'm pretty sure it was the Ed Sullivan Show, unlike any show that's ever been on TV. At that time, in 1963, 64, population of America was 170 million people, about that. Now it's double that. It's 330 million. And the Ed Sullivan Show was so big, they had pooping elephants and comedians and puppet guys and, you know, one rock band for the kids.