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" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The Garden State will never leave me. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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