I always think in life passion supersedes everything.
[My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.
The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.
I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.
As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.
I'm addicted to creating and writing.
I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.
Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.
A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.
You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.
I am truly independently owned and operated.
The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.
You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.
Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.
I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.
I don't want to be a reality retro star.
