Quotes from Richie Sambora

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

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?

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

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 might have been a psychologist. It interests 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.

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

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.