Peter Criss

There’s a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I’ve been doing it a long time, I’m used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

We’re really in control; that’s the difference. We were out of control then.

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we’re the ‘John Glenns’ of rock – we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

Cool things happen. Ace’s guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

As busy as I claim to be, I’ve still got the greatest job in the world.

The magic’s back and we’re in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.

It’s a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the ’70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

We’re playing the Superbowl this year, we’re opening up before the coins drop.

I’m from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don’t see each other much.

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience – I go up and out, right, left and back.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

We’re much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.