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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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