Richie Sambora

“A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.”

“I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.”

“Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.”

“I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid.”

“I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it.”

“I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.”

“I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.”

“That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?”

“I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.”

“I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.”

“The Garden State will never leave me.”

“As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.”

“I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.”

“You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.”

“We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.”

“I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.”

“When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?”

“When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.”

“Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.”

“The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.”