PAUL STANLEY EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU

PAUL STANLEY EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU

ON KISS VIDEOS:

"They're played in the places where it counts most. MTV! You're not going to go see them on Jimmy Swaggart's station. That's cool.

"In essence, a video sure is a good excuse to spend 12 hours with some of the best looking women you've ever seen. And, hell, the record company is paying us on top of it. I always insist on casting the women. I mean, if they're not friends before the video, they're friends after. Who knows better what I like than me?"

ON HOME SHOPPING SHOWS:

"\ watch that as much as I watch MTV. Some of the operators look very interesting! Once in a while, if they've got a great looking blonde they show her, and then you feel like calling up and ordering the porcelain hamster, just so you can talk to her."

WHY HE DOESN’T DO

OUTSIDE

PRODUCTION:

If it comes to being in the studio with a band that I might consider to be mediocre, or hanging around with a good looking woman, guess which one I'd choose!"

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GENE AND HIM:

"We're real different when it comes to free time. Gene very much enjoys filling it, with almost anything.

I think he'd be the first to admit that he enjoys the feeling of movement. We're different people. He gets with,things that I would not necessarily get involved with. That's what makes for an interesting relationship and chemistry. We have different priorities, and different things that we like to do with our time.

"Gene and I (used to sing) on a street corner with an open guitar case in Chinatown. Dinner was $1.25. It gave a new meaning to singing for your supper."

ON WRITING CRAZY NIGHTS:

"As a rule, I usually write most of the stuff in three and a half weeks. I (spent) seven months writing (Crazy Nights)...It's far and away the best stuff we've done. It's really moody, ballsy, ferocious stuff."

ON WHY PETER CRISS LEFT KISS:

"His shoes were too tight.

"I wish everybody the best who's ever been in this band. But if you're not in this band, there's probably a reason. Whatever anybody wants to surmise, or whatever any former member wants to say about the reason why he left is fine. I don't know why Peter left. Peter left because Peter left."

ON FANS:

"Great people who love us, and a lot of turds don't. “People aren't buying spandex, they aren't buying smoke bombs, they're buying music, and if they don't think it's up to what they want, then they don't buy it. And more power to 'em. I respect people for that."

ON THE CRITICS:

"Who cares about who laughs at you? I'm more concerned with the people who think we're great. Life's too short to worry about the people who don't like you. Forty million records is a hell of a lof of recognition."

ON CLASSIC ROCK:

"Rock and roll music can be fast food for the ears. There's nothing wrong with that. You eat it up, then you're ready for more."

ON HIS LIFESTYLE:

"If they were going to a film of me for 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' they'd have to film me walking down the street getting groceries. I mean, I don't subscribe to all that nonsense. I mean, I'm real happy and I've got eveiything I want. But there's no good rock and roll music made by people who are cut off from their fans and surrounded by salaried yes men. Rock and roll is singing about what's going on around you. If what's going on around you is servants serving you tea and cookies, I'm not sure there are a tot of people at K-Mart who can relate to that."

ON THE EARLY DAYS OF KISS, THE MUSICIANS:

"Mediocre in a technical sense. Ain't nothing wrong with 'Strutter' and ’Deuce' and that stuff. Sounds pretty good to me. I have no problems listening to those records.

"The demo that was cut at Electric Lady was done because somebody at Electric Lady owed Gene and me $ 1000 for sessions that we had done. Gene and I sang on a car commercial."

ON GOOD CLEAN FUN ON THE ROAD:

"We locked the road manager of a headlining band in an anvil case so that we could do what had to be done. But it was done in good fun."

ON MODERN WOMEN:

“I have no problems with sexism or any of that pap. We may slip once in a while, but hell, for the most part what we're doing is good clean fun. Nobody gets hurt, everybody is respected in the morning. If you don't think I'll respect you in the morning, I'll let you sleep 'til lunch."

ON BATHROOM HUMOR:

"You throw a lot of crap against the wall and something sticks. The good stuff sticks, not the crap!"

ON CONFIDENCE:

"You've got nothing unless you believe in yourself. So, has anything changed? No, I feel the same about me and I'm right!"