Bret Michaels

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going. ”

I believe you must find the things in life that you love, and don't let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes, but you're never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don't fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive. ”

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. ”