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.

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.

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

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

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'