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 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.

Books have always been an important part of my life.

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.