Quotes By Ace Frehley

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

America is huge.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.