As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.
At about 16 years old, I was a delivery boy in a butcher shop and paid $200 for an old set of Radial King Slingerlands.
Bringing 3-D into the show is a first and we'll have the largest screens ever in history behind us on stage.
Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.
I have the best seat in the house every night; it's the best two hours of my day.
I haven't lost my temper in years, and I do have a bad temper. I was doing "Beth" and this laser was hitting me, it was really making me nuts.
I heard some kid loses his stuff in a confessional booth. I don't know if I liked it - being a Catholic guy - but right here it's funny.
I'm always writing and bringing stuff to the band. We're gonna do some new tracks for our movie, Detroit Rock City.
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
I've known Gene and Paul for 27 years, that's a long time. We really know each other like brothers. We make magic.
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.
It's the age of the computer; things change, people change. I notice very young people running the business today.
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.
There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.
Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.
We don't allow anyone or anything to get into the circle of the four of us, because we realize and appreciate how great we've been.
We were sharing a bottle of cheap sherry wine to get warm. Now I have this great house away from everything in New York, I've got my own little world.
We work real hard every night to see our fans' faces light up. When I do my solo and hear them yell, "Go Peter," oh my God, I can't tell you what a feeling that is.
We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.
We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.
We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.
What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.
You guys rock, I mean, come on... You really show your appreciation big-time right in your face, and that's what KISS has always been about.
Peter Criss released the album Let Me Rock You in 1982.
Peter was somewhat of a prankster while in KISS. Once, as a joke, he left a trail of his clothes from his hotel room bed to the open window (Peter was hiding under the bed).
In his teen years, as the "war counsel" for a Brooklyn street gang, Peter was responsible for making weapons. When his grandmother discovered him making a zip gun, she broke a broomstick over his head (Chronicled in SPIN Magazine's KISS issue, 1998).
Peter Criss adopted the stage persona of the Catman,when Kiss adopted the use of makeup and costumes.
Petre Criss joined the pre-Kiss group, Wicked Lester in 1973.
Peter Criss real name as-'George Peter Criscuola'.
Peter has been married to his current wife Gigi (Criss) since May 1998.
He was married to Lydia Di Leonardo on January 31, 1970 until their divorce in 1979.
Peter is 5 feet, 9 inches tall.
Peter was the original drummer for the rock band KISS.
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