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" 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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" 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. "

Richie Sambora

Family

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Day

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth. "

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

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

" The Garden State will never leave me. "

Richie Sambora

Never

Leave

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

Richie Sambora

Will

Anything

" 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. "

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

" I might have been a psychologist. It interests me. "

Richie Sambora

Been

Interests

" 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? "

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

" 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. "