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

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.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

The best kind of performance review is no performance review.

If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

Just keep going. Be stoic.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so’. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

Love your family. Spend time, be kind and serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised and today is short.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

He is the happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.