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 am truly independently owned and operated.

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

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

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

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

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

[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.'

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

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

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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

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.

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

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.