Gene Simmons

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.

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.

And I remember coming home from work and my mother got one of those TV dinners. People have no idea what that is. But you buy them frozen because poor mom had to go work. She couldn't. And it was like this kind of like old shoes crunched into like burgers, peas and some mashed potatoes. And you pour the gravy and that was it. And I didn't know anything. I liked it. So I was eating it.

And I remember coming home from work and my mother got one of those TV dinners. People have no idea what that is. But you buy them frozen because poor mom had to go work. She couldn't. And it was like this kind of like old shoes crunched into like burgers, peas and some mashed potatoes. And you pour the gravy and that was it. And I didn't know anything. I liked it. So I was eating it.

And ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles. And I'm going, what is that? And by the way, I've met the biggest stars in the world, especially musicians. They all point to that pivotal moment. Scientists call it a singularity.

And ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles. And I'm going, what is that? And by the way, I've met the biggest stars in the world, especially musicians. They all point to that pivotal moment. Scientists call it a singularity.

All of a sudden, these feminine-looking guys with hair over their ears, because in those days, even shorter than your hair, you'd see the meat between the ear and the hairline above it, or like crew cuts. Yeah. and these guys talk like that here i work my fingers to the bone old like old what is that and they're small compared to ed sullivan and everything

All of a sudden, these feminine-looking guys with hair over their ears, because in those days, even shorter than your hair, you'd see the meat between the ear and the hairline above it, or like crew cuts. Yeah. and these guys talk like that here i work my fingers to the bone old like old what is that and they're small compared to ed sullivan and everything