Quotes from Ace Frehley


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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.


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


I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.


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.


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.


America is huge.


We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.


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'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.


I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.


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


I'm just a down-to-earth guy.


I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.


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


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


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


As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.