The Garden State will never leave me.

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

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

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

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.

We’ve been around for almost three decades now – there’s about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

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.

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.