Quotes from Bret Michaels

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

Every day that I wake up has to be a good day!

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

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

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'm addicted to creating and writing.

I don't like high-maintenance. High-maintenance does not work for me at all. And I don't like anybody who talks down to people. I don't speak down to anyone who works around me, and so I won't put up with it in a relationship.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

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

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

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

I want to fill my life with as much awesome stuff as I can.

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.

Obviously, in my past, I had a quite wild relationship with Pamela Anderson.

The video for 'Ride the Wind,' we shot that in Detroit. We shot it at Joe Louis Arena two nights in a row.

You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.

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.

You're never gonna make everyone love what you do. You just embrace the fans that do.

Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

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.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

I'm a dreamer and a realist.