Quotes from Bret Michaels

I tell my daughters, 'If something doesn't feel right, whether that's going to a party, doing a video, shooting something, you're around someone that's creeping you out, use your gut. If you're in a car with a driver and something don't feel right, use your gut.'

One of the things that matters to me, when you're out on the road, I want to make sure people are having a good time.

A lot of bands live and breathe out of hotels. I just happen to be the one that lives on my bus. I have camped and RVed my entire life.

With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

I never envisioned being a rock star. I envisioned the stage. I would draw and draw and draw the stage, or the tour bus. It was much simpler.

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

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.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

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

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

I believe you must find the things in life that you love, and don't let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes, but you're never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don't fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive.

I'm on the phone 24/7 with my kids talking to them about the ups and down of life, schoolwork, bullying, the great times.

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

I'm the son of a Navy veteran, my two sisters are in the Air Force, I have a cousin who's a Navy Seal, and more.

With the Internet, you can be easily exposed and disposed. You can create some viral video, the biggest thing ever, and then four weeks later, no one remembers your name.

The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.