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Gene Simmons

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The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

If you become famous, not always, but by and large, makes a good living. The rest is how you can handle it or not. Because there are, I would say, lots of famous people, rappers, a lot of rappers, who surround themselves with yes men and yes women. a posse so that, and I admire rap, don't misunderstand, so that when you go someplace, you have that cushion of support.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

If you become famous, not always, but by and large, makes a good living. The rest is how you can handle it or not. Because there are, I would say, lots of famous people, rappers, a lot of rappers, who surround themselves with yes men and yes women. a posse so that, and I admire rap, don't misunderstand, so that when you go someplace, you have that cushion of support.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

It says publicly, I am somebody.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

It says publicly, I am somebody.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Whereas if you didn't have the fame, they wouldn't hang out. They're parasites and vampires. They're only around you because you have money and fame and they get free booze and free chicks and free all that stuff. They're using you. You're using them also to say, look, I'm somebody.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Whereas if you didn't have the fame, they wouldn't hang out. They're parasites and vampires. They're only around you because you have money and fame and they get free booze and free chicks and free all that stuff. They're using you. You're using them also to say, look, I'm somebody.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

So why do rappers, a lot of rappers, some sports guys, why do they go to clubs with a group to advertise that they're somebody? I won't play that game. I drive here myself. I wipe my own ass.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

So why do rappers, a lot of rappers, some sports guys, why do they go to clubs with a group to advertise that they're somebody? I won't play that game. I drive here myself. I wipe my own ass.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

I'm just happy I can earn a living, a good living.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

I'm just happy I can earn a living, a good living.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

And the rest doesn't mean anything.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

And the rest doesn't mean anything.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

As an athlete yourself, if you've broken the... If you're the fastest human being on two legs... And after all the cameras are out and the chicks are gone and the awards are gone and the money people, you're just there by yourself. Do you wake up at the crack of dawn the next day and try to break your own record?

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

As an athlete yourself, if you've broken the... If you're the fastest human being on two legs... And after all the cameras are out and the chicks are gone and the awards are gone and the money people, you're just there by yourself. Do you wake up at the crack of dawn the next day and try to break your own record?

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Of course. That's what made you a champion in the first place. So I'm going to be 76. I'm 75 now. I don't know about you, but the race is closer to being over than the beginning. I don't know about you, but when it looks like the race line, the finish line is coming, I run faster. Don't you? Yeah. To finish. Finish strong. Yeah. What are you going to do?

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Of course. That's what made you a champion in the first place. So I'm going to be 76. I'm 75 now. I don't know about you, but the race is closer to being over than the beginning. I don't know about you, but when it looks like the race line, the finish line is coming, I run faster. Don't you? Yeah. To finish. Finish strong. Yeah. What are you going to do?

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Just or sit back and watch somebody else's ball game as they go by? No. No. That's if you appreciate life. If you love life, man, oh man, I'm glad every day I can have a hot fut Sunday and a good back rub, a lap dance every once in a while. And then you die. That's all.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Just or sit back and watch somebody else's ball game as they go by? No. No. That's if you appreciate life. If you love life, man, oh man, I'm glad every day I can have a hot fut Sunday and a good back rub, a lap dance every once in a while. And then you die. That's all.

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Where should we go follow you? GeneSimmons.com. Okay. You can do Instagram, but my kids take care of that. I never go on there. Okay. 30 seconds of somebody watching, 30 seconds of somebody showing how they can pick their nose and...

The School of Greatness
Gene Simmons Opens Up: Coming To America With Nothing, The Mindset That Built An Empire & The Man Behind The Makeup

Where should we go follow you? GeneSimmons.com. Okay. You can do Instagram, but my kids take care of that. I never go on there. Okay. 30 seconds of somebody watching, 30 seconds of somebody showing how they can pick their nose and...