Cindy Adams hosted a “rockin’ party” at her Park Avenue penthouse for Gene Simmons, lead singer of the rock band Kiss. Simmons wrote the new best-selling Sex Money Kiss, which reveals all of his ideas on—well, sex, money, and Kiss! The book explores his theories on love, and making money. “This book is about redefining relationships,” he says. “Love and sex aren’t the same thing. A wife either lives a life of lies, or she deals with the truth. A prostitute has more self-respect than most wives! At least she’ll tell you what it’s gonna cost before she does the dirty deed!”

At least that’s how Simmons tells it, holding nothing back, which probably explains why he never married, but lives with Shannon Tweed for 20 years with their two kids.

Simmons looked so cool in a black suit as he chatted with the Late Show’s Paul Shaffer and New York Post editor Col Allen. Also joining the guests, were Cindy’s Yorkshire terriers, Jazzy and Juicy, who are both inseparable from their mistress.

Chatting with Gene Simmons is like walking straight into the eye of a storm. Upon meeting him, we asked, “Do you eat tongue?” “Depends on whose,” he replied, missing nary a beat. Even without his signature black and white makeup, he remains a rock god. Somewhat charming, eccentric, and definitely mysterious, he’s always performing—whether for a crowd of 50,000 or a gathering of 20.

The invitation asked guests to “Dress in whatever you’d wear to meet Gene Simmons.” It looks like The Sheet made official rock star status with a shiny rocker jacket. When informing Simmons that the dress was entirely for him, he replied, “When a woman dresses for me, she takes her clothes off!” (Now we understand why Simmons’s claim to fame is having slept with 5,000 women.)

Up next for the glam rock bass player is a tour with Kiss and Aerosmith. Kiss also released their 36th album (called The Kiss Symphony) recently. The album features the Melbourne Symphony, which is quite a stretch for a band that hit it big in the ’70s with songs and lyrics like, “I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.”

“A husband might be able to love a woman without loving her sister and mother as well. But if he wants out, his wife can take half of his gross pre-tax dollars—which is 50 percent more than his own mother would get! I’d only give my own mom ten percent. If she asked for more, I’d say, ‘Get lost, Ma!’”

This 53 year-old rocker-turned-author certainly knows how to get people’s tongues wagging—that is, when he’s not wagging his own!