BRET MICHAELS - "My Life Is Part Humor, Part Roses, Part Thorns"
July 8, 2008, 16 years ago
The following story is courtesy of Donna Freydkin from USA Today:
BRET MICHAELS, the pouty-lipped, bandanna-loving, flaxen-haired musician, promises to do just that on Thursday at the Rocklahoma music festival, which is taking place July 10th - 13th in Pryor, Oklahoma.
"People are ready. They want to hear rock again; they want to go out and party and have fun," Michaels says. "You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining. I think people want to hear rock. Everything is cyclical."Michaels has been around for two decades, thanks to such super-charged hits as 'Talk Dirty To Me' and 'Something To Believe In' with his hairspray-loving brethren in POISON. But he has seen his brand of music shunted aside and mocked in favor of grunge, hip-hop and melodic statement rock, so Michaels enjoys what he has. And he doesn't agonize too much over what he doesn't.
"My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. I'll come off the stage at Texas Stadium (and) I'm a rock god," he says. "And then, an hour and a half later, I'm throwing a football and waiting for a cheeseburger from a truck stop at Carl's Corner, alongside a freeway. That is the balance in life."Read more here.
