Richie Sambora Quotes

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

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.

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

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

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.

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.

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

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook

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.

I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

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.

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.

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

The Garden State will never leave me.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

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.

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

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

Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will learn from them all. You'll learn about the world at large and about other people but most important, you'll learn about yourself.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.