Bret Michaels Quotes

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

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

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

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.

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

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

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.

I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

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

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