Ace Frehley

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

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'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.

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.

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

America is huge.

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

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

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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'm just a down-to-earth guy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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