Gene Simmons

Everybody else gets paid.

The writers and the publishers and the advertising dollars.

Radio last year made $14 billion.

You know how much of that went to the Sinatra estate or Tame Impala or all the new bands?

I'm not suggesting anything.

I'm stating fact that AM, FM radio is, well, I want to use language that doesn't get anybody legal involved.

In the patois of the street, it's criminal.

You cannot, America is based on the premise that if you work hard, you should get paid.

So everybody's getting paid.

When a radio station, AM and FM broadcasts, the executives get paid, the advertisers pay money, the billboards on the street which use our name and likeness for free.

If you use my name and likeness otherwise, I would take your firstborn and your house.

But radio is allowed to do that.

They keep $14 billion.

And the new artist, by the way, who's trying hard to make it, is not going to make those precious pennies to help them survive.

And that's, as far as I'm concerned, my opinion is, it's criminal.

Well, one way or the other, whether it's consolidated or not, the result is the same.

A truck runs you over and the guy comes out and says, I'm sorry I ran you over.

I didn't mean to do it.

Or, I don't like you.

I ran you over.