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“At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.”
“I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.”
“You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.”
“I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.”
“Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.”
“I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.”
“I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.”
“Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.”
“Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.”
“I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.”
“You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.”
“I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.”
“There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.”
“Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.”
“When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.”
“There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.”
“I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.”
“Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.”
“Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.”
“I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.”