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" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Take
Kids
Love
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" 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. "
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Think
Own
Learning
" I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. "
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Nobility
Always
Desire
" Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. "
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Rock
People
" 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. "
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People
Impossible
Grow
" I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by. "
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Sometimes
Need
" The Garden State will never leave me. "
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Never
Me
Leave
" Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think. "
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Song
First
You
" 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. "
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Relationship
Yourself
You
" 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. "
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Family
Happy
Day
" You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money. "
Richie Sambora
Happiness
See
You
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Life
My Life
Together
" Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations. "
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Life
My Life
Writing
" I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid. "
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Will
Me
Anything
" I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. "
Richie Sambora
Guy
Take For Granted
Minute
" Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. "
Richie Sambora
Process
Songwriting
Healthy
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Guitar
I Can
Listening
" I might have been a psychologist. It interests me. "
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Been
Me
Interests
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Singer
Song
You
" At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing. "
Richie Sambora
End
Want
Buy
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Stand
Great
Look
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
People
Man
Guitar
" You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville. "
Richie Sambora
Hollywood
Want
Go
" I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it. "
Richie Sambora
Down
Really
Homebody
" 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. "
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Music
View
Humanity
" I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. "
Richie Sambora
Know
Without
Tour
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Love
Voice
Early
" We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans. "
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Almost
Three
Now
" 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. "
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Know
Grief
Losing
" 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. "
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Cool
America
Kind
" 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. "
Richie Sambora
Over
Game
People