I am truly independently owned and operated.

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.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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

I am truly independently owned and operated.

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.

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

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

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

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

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

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

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.

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.

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.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

It matters not how strait the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

Allu Arjun is one of the most stylish actors. We should take care of our looks when acting with him because he wears the best of costumes, and if we don't take care, we would look like a housemaid beside him.

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Love from the fans is flattering. That's what makes the show. They are so essential to everything involved with 'Once Upon a Time.'

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

I hate my name. It's a stupid, horrible name.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

We need to encourage the presence of more Asian writers and executive producers so they can fight for normalizing the casting of Asians in traditional American roles.

Only a god can save us.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

You throw the sand against the wind And the wind blows it back again.