Best 18 quotes of Bret Michaels on MyQuotes

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

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.

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

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

I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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