Gene Simmons

Very good.

I'm very proud of you for a young man such as yourself.

The idea of the band is not better or worse than anybody else's idea, but it wasn't because I've got this inner artiste and all that.

I don't care about that.

And there's a distinctly different mantra, shall we say, between perhaps the classical and purest visions of music and art and perhaps the way I think of it.

Now it is.

When we first started, it was about who's got good taste.

And I only gave it about what tastes good.

Profound difference.

And when we first started doing licensing and merchandising, ah, these guys sell out.

And you're talking from people who never learned to read or write music, didn't understand music theory.

They were self-taught.

By the way, that's very impressive that people have this urge to be creative and everything, but never went through the process of school and how to do this and all that.

decided to just kind of bumble their way through it and created this amazing popular art form whether it's rap or rock or anything else that's an amazing it's always miraculous it's miraculous some and not everybody can do that but i don't suffer fools lightly or whatever that phrase meant which is

All my life I've heard hippies, well-intentioned though they may be, I just want enough money to get by.

I said, I'll make a deal with you.

Any dollar you make that you don't think you need, please give me, because that's going to make me happier.

I will never have enough money, power, or anything else, because that's what life is about.

Tell me why.

Significance is not important.