I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.
When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.
You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
The cup that went down under has now come up again.
In August, 2006 Gene sent a video recording to an Israeli soldier severely wounded in combat in Lebanon, praising him as his hero.
Gene's parents are named Feri Witz and Florence Klein.
Gene is of Hungarian and Jewish descent.
Gene's famous tongue has been measured at over 7 inches in length.
Gene was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on Oct 15, 2006 along with fellow Kiss members Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley.
Gene and his family are the subject of a new reality show on the A&E Network, titled Family Jewels.
Gene created and published his own line of fanzines as a teen. Some of his titles include: Cosmos, Faun, and Lamaba Gamma. His magazines were based on fantasy, science fiction, and basic creative imagination comics.
Gene worked at Glamour magazine, then at Vogue as assistant to the editor, Kate Lloyd.
Gene worked with kids & rock music on the VH-1 reality hit Rock School.
Gene's picture appears on special Coca-Cola bottles in parts of France.
Gene Simmons and a former girlfriend, Walsh Ward, have settled a defamation lawsuit in which he made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac" during a TV documentary. Walsh was Gene's girlfriend in the '70s and received no financial payment for appearing in the film When KISS Ruled the World. Her lawsuit also alleges the film defamed her by juxtaposing Gene's commentary with photographs that included her.
Gene has the same birthday as Rob Halford, the vocalist for Judas Priest .
Albatross, Rainbow, and The Crimson Harpoon are among the names the band considered before choosing the name KISS in 1973.
Gene played in a band called Cathedral several years before forming KISS.
Gene claims to have slept with over 4,600 women.
Gene launched his Gene Simmons - Dragonfly fashion label in August, 2002.
Gene discovered Van Halen in 1977 and produced the demo that got them signed to Warner Brothers Records.
Gene designed the axe shaped bass guitar.
Gene was once in a band called Bullfrog Beer. Other pre-KISS bands he was a member of include Coffee, The Long Island Sounds, and Wicked Lester (with Paul Stanley).
Eddie Van Halen once begged Gene and Paul Stanley to let him join KISS, during a time when his band, Van Halen, was having problems. He was rejected because Gene and Paul were still trying to convince Ace Frehley to stay, though their efforts were unsuccessful as Frehley left the band in 1983. He was replaced by Vinnie Vincent, then Mark St. John, and finally Bruce Kulick.
Gene has lived with model/actress Shannon Tweed since 1983, but they've never married. He calls marriage an "institution", and says he doesn't believe in institutions.
Gene was involved in a live in relationship with Diana Ross.
Gene was the co-founder of the hard rock band, KISS. The band is famous for outrageous antics and kabuki style make-up.
Gene has written two books. He wrote Sex, Money, KISS and KISS and Make-up.
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