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" I might have been a psychologist. It interests me. "
Richie Sambora
Been
Me
Interests
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The Garden State will never leave me. "
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" I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. "
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Take For Granted
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" 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. "
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" I'm on a search for my future ex-wife. "
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Search
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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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Song
Look
" Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. "
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Rock
People
" 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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You
Good
" 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
" I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it. "
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Down
Really
Homebody
" 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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Stand
Great
Look
" I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. "
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Know
Without
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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
" 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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Over
Game
People
" I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by. "
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Support
Sometimes
Need
" 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
" 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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View
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" 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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America
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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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" 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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" I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid. "
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Anything
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I Can
Listening
" 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 Am
Husband
House
" You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money. "
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Happiness
See
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" 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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" I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. "
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