Gene Simmons

Eventually they all went platinum, but it took a long time.

Platinum Kids in the days of hard goods meant a million individuals actually paid for it instead of beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, which means fuck all.

You can download a billion of something and only make a few thousand dollars.

You don't know how it ends.

The beginning, the end is the beginning.

The death of a caterpillar is the beginning of the beautiful butterfly.

This is...

We're in the cocoon stage.

You just wait.

Rebirth, the phoenix rises from the ashes.

I've got to write this stuff down.

This is really good stuff.

We were separated.

And Paul and I...

you know, co-wrote or at least showed each other the songs, and how about this, how about that, he'd bring in a song, Black Diamond, I'd say, that's a great song, but you need a riff.

So all those Paul songs, almost lots of them, I'd say that's a really good song, but

Let me put riffs in that, or at least... Because the way I play bass is more like horn parts, less like Motown.

Well, more McCartney.

And the way McCartney approached bass is really more of a guitar player, almost like a string quartet, where the cello has its own melody.

And so if you're an ACDC, you can go... But that's always been one of the secret sauces of Kiss.