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" Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations. "
Richie Sambora
Life
My Life
Writing
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" 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? "
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" Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. "
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" I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off. "
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" 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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" We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans. "
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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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Learning
" 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. "
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Man
Guitar
" 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. "
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Song
You
" I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid. "
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Me
Anything
" I might have been a psychologist. It interests me. "
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Been
Me
Interests
" 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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Husband
House
" At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing. "
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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. "
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" 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
" 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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I Can
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" The Garden State will never leave me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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
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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. "
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Happy
Day
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Down
" 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. "
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Love
Voice
Early
" I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. "
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Without
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" 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. "
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