Bret Michaels

A lot of bands live and breathe out of hotels. I just happen to be the one that lives on my bus. I have camped and RVed my entire life.

I want to fill my life with as much awesome stuff as I can.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.

I'm on the phone 24/7 with my kids talking to them about the ups and down of life, schoolwork, bullying, the great times.

With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek.

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.

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.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

One of the things that matters to me, when you're out on the road, I want to make sure people are having a good time.

With the Internet, you can be easily exposed and disposed. You can create some viral video, the biggest thing ever, and then four weeks later, no one remembers your name.