Quotes from Ace Frehley

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

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

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.