I am truly independently owned and operated.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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 hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'

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

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.

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.