Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

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.

When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a clich.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

Do not betray the people.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

Tough times should serve only one purpose in your life to teach you how to be tougher on the inside than your circumstances are on the outside.

I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

I hate horror movies.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

I am a gummy bear fanatic.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.