Poison’s Bret Michaels spoke in an interview with Gardner’s Mattress & More about his motivation and determination for keeping the group alive. Read below what the vocalist said:
“I’ve always had this drive and determination. There’s this storm that’s inside you, and then it’s about focusing it because we go through adversity, highs, lows, it’s taken that, and when you get knocked down, that’s another log of fuel on the fire for me.
“In other words, some people are like, ‘That’s it, I give (up), rightfully’ and so on. They are like, ‘My threshold of pain is there’. So I’m going to give you one of the keys of what worked for me.”
He went on:
“Part of it is my blessing as well as my curse of being diabetic. I just had a higher threshold of pain than a lot of people. I was willing to suffer the pain longer of being turned out, put down. Going to New York with demos, told, ‘(You are) never gonna make it, good luck.’
”And then taking that as fuel on the fire and finding a way, and that ended up loading up a band, a windowless Chevette. I think there was three of the five windows in the hatchback left and a green Ford barely running pickup truck.”