“I don’t think the critics could understand what we were doing.”

“I always know I’m a country singer, and regardless of where I’ve fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I’m a country singer.”

“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”

“Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs – Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It’s kind of a secret. People say to us, ‘Why did you get that?’ And we say, ‘No reason.”

“I have nightmares that I’m going to wake up, and everyone’s driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we’re all getting health insurance.”

“We’ve always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we’re the world’s most famous opening act because we’ve opened for every huge band on the planet.”

“We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.”

“Most chick singers say ‘if you hurt me, I’ll die’… I say, ‘if you hurt me, I’ll kick your ass.”

“I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.”

“Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren’t playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I’d still be doing it because that’s what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.”

“Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can’t be KISS.”

“Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.”

“White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can’t do it.”

“A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.”