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" I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations. "

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

" Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. "

" 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. "

" I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. "

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" 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. "

" I'm on a search for my future ex-wife. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off. "

" 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. "