Bret Michaels is Back on the Road, Doing What's Good for His "Soul"
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Despite doctors' orders to slow down, Rocker Bret Michaels is back on the road doing what he does best - rocking out.
The "Celebrity Apprentice" champ kick-started his "Rose & Thorns" tour in Mississippi last Friday; marking it his first full concert since suffering a myriad of medical challenges.
"I think this is good for my soul," Michaels said in a phone interview with the Associated Press Thursday from his latest concert stop in Minneapolis.
"Honestly, I'm taking every precaution. I'm not doing anything stupid."
Back in April, Michaels underwent an emergency appendectomy and was expected to make a full recovery. Days later he was listed in critical condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
While recovering from the hemorrhage in May, Michaels, a life-time Type 1 diabetic, suffered a warning stroke and was diagnosed with a hole in the heart. He is expected to undergo heart surgery this fall to repair the hole.
"I don't want my legacy to be that I had a brain hemorrhage," said Michaels. "I want it to be that I rocked, I treated people with respect and I made a lot of good friends along the way.
Along with his concert tour and upcoming album, the Poison frontman is expected to return to television with his VH1 docu-reality show, "Life As I Know It." The show will focus on Michaels' relationship with his daughters, Raine and Jorja, and their mother, Kristi Lynn Gibson, Michaels' on-again-off-again girlfriend.
Michaels is set to perform next in Medina, Minessota on Friday and will later make stops in North Dakota, Florida and Texas.
His upcoming album, "Custom Built" will be released July 6.