Gene Simmons: 'I'm a strict parent'

Gene Simmons has confessed that he considers himself to be a "strict" parent.

The Kiss rocker - who is father to 18-year-old Sophie and 21-year-old Nicholas - sets rules that the children are forced to follow for as long as they live in his house.

"My kids are both wonderful human beings," he explained.

"They are not allowed to go off the rails... The phrase 'wait until your father gets home' is good. Parents should never act like a friend to their children. I am not their friend, I am their parent and they are going to do as I say."

He continued: "There is no running to their room and slamming the door. That's my room. That's my door. Even the poop they poop out is the food I bought them. The air they breathe is my air. They're allowed to rebel once I kick them out of the house and they earn their own living."

Simmons added that he will enforce serious repercussions if he ever catches Sophie or Nicholas drinking without permission.

"If I catch them getting drunk once, if they don't tell me they are going to do it, they are going to find their Beverly Hills butts in the middle of a work camp in the desert," he said.