Quotes By Ace Frehley

America is huge.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

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.

We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.

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

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

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

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.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

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.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.