We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.
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.
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?
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'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.
I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
