Bret Michaels

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

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.

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

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

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 don't want to be a reality retro star.

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

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

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

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.

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

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.