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“The video for 'Ride the Wind,' we shot that in Detroit. We shot it at Joe Louis Arena two nights in a row.”
“Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.”
“The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.”
“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.”
“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.”
“I always think in life passion supersedes everything.”
“I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.”
“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.”
“Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.”
“Every day that I wake up has to be a good day!”
“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.”
“I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.”
“You're never gonna make everyone love what you do. You just embrace the fans that do.”
“All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my 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.”
“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.”
“For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.”