Bon Jovi interview on This Morning Nov 9 2009

What a pleasure to have you here, welcome back, I'll be back, yes, sooner, but of course you said that

2009

was going to be easy and relaxing and that you were going to go home, you're going to relax, maybe do some of your greatest hits . album, what happened, I lied, boy, he lied, he lied, we started making big hits, we actually kept a commitment based on what you came out with Lost Highway, you know, we went to our record company after all these years, so we were going to Nashville to do a and they, when they stopped crying, you know, because here we were going, they thought we were going to go country, uh, they said okay, but before we lose all that money, can you promise us that the big guys US hits said of course we start writing? a couple of songs for Greatest Hits, but then the world changed last October and he, as we all know, the world's economies changed.

The election of President Obama forever changed the way I looked at American politics, so we started writing what became a studio album when uh, we went to the company with the good news and the bad news was that they got us record but they didn't get their big hits, you know? And here we are again because it's very timely that these songs fit together and you kind of went back to the old sound, right? The last album was quite Country and

this

time it seems like you guys are back to the kind of, I mean, you've always been rockers, but it's back to that kind of original sound, we know you well, sure, yeah, you know, I think, um, making the Nashville Nashville record, you know we had a uh, every time you're banned for like 25 years, when the door to Evolution really opens, you have to go through it and keep going.

Have a nice day, Who Said You Can't Go Home became the first number one song by a rock and roll band in history on the country charts for two weeks, so that's when the National Record came about. um, and it became a beautiful experiment that went number one in 17 countries and we had the biggest tour of our career and in fact the biggest tour in the world two years ago created a void, it's a complicated question and probably not something that has anything to do with you, but you You know, on the common man type of topic, there's a lot in the newspaper saying that the concert tickets here were very expensive, ours here, yeah, yeah, apparently

this

is in the paper now, so we don't.

I don't know how you know, I don't know if this is the right role, but, um, but it's something that's under your control. Do you know anything about that? To be honest with you, I don't know the price of the ticket, but um, you know. I'll have to take some of the blame for that, of course, if that's the case, but I don't know if they were overpriced or not. I'll have to look into it, to be honest with you, yes, and if they are. I'll say something about that, um, because yes, I have control of, you know those things, although I don't have as much control as I should right now, um, so the circle for uh, you're going to spend two years spanning the globe I want say, why do you have to remind me?

I know, but this is what I wanted to ask you. Two years. I mean, it's a long time right now. Are you wondering what I'm doing? A little but. That's why we're doing a residency at the O2 for example, so we're moving for 6 weeks and you know we'll be here outside your window in the

morning

, well you know where the coffee is you can always get. a free cup of coffee on tour for you guys, you've been together for probably half your lives, you sure spend more time together than apart, yeah, so you're getting more mature together as a band and that of course changes with families and stuff.

And is this that the whole family comes with you because you have three four children? Yeah, yeah, maybe in the summer months, they should, they should, um, but you can't do that if you're packing and unpacking every night. They wave you off the door and say goodbye, see you in two years and then SC leaves, you know, but yeah, it's getting harder and harder to tour, to tour extensively, and you have to be pretty good at these. heights I mean you have been doing it for a long time are there times when you are still sick of each other or do you know how to play?

Do you know well that we have our time on stage and then? we'll break up and have a little bit of down time or I think you know part of the problem with any relationship and obviously this is like a sexless marriage or something we like to say but no one you know will be a shoulder. and also knowing when to give each other space, you know, I mean, after all these years, there's not much we don't know about each other. You know, we like, like John says, we spend more time, we spend more time together than we do. apart more time together than we spend with our families, do you know very well that you went through the audience, you went through the stage where they didn't get along and there was a problem within the band and I think you said it once again?

I'm, I'm taking this as a quote from somewhere, um, you know they hated me and I hated them, it's something that's really cool, that's an exaggeration, like we've never been to one of those. Okay, we broke up or there would be none of that, but you could wake up in the

morning

and be in a bad mood, but we were never at that point where we broke up or I hate it, there was never any of that, there was never, there was never a day in which we were not in the same dressing room or in the same car on the way to the places there was never anything of that there was never never never there was nothing of and in the documentary uh that will be coming out very soon 233 November, uh, when we were beautiful, there Back in the '90s, did you hire a rock therapist?

I think that's what appeared in the documentary. What does rock do? That guy, I don't know if we'd call him a rock therapist. No, yeah, he was a guy who would come into these almost corporate situations and really help corporations get along and do all that kind of stuff, but he also worked for Eros Smith and some people and John. He was actually smart enough to say, "We need to communicate because what happened was, after three years of two 16 and a half month tours and riding the rocket to start them. I mean, we came from nowhere to New Jersey. slippery and wet, which We sold 36 million records and we were on tour for almost three and a half years We were basically exhausted and burned out more than anything else and then, uh, we just needed to communicate, so what does it do, what does it do. ?, what is it?, what is it?

This guy's role is very simple, without boring anyone who watches it. He had no other interest than to hear what your side of the story was. He wasn't paid. He wasn't an agent. He wasn't a lawyer. He, he, came in and mediated, he just said, boy, that sounded pretty stupid, telling your side of the story now and then telling the whole truth and nothing about the truth because he wasn't on your side. side or his side or anything so disappointing imagine this guy all dressed up in spandex, a guy coming in like medicine, you've heard the other stories, now the guy wants to collaborate on your songs, you know the story of the beach boy and he does not. no, no, there was none of that, there was nothing, but he did it for free no, he got, he got whatever his check, you know, it was a salary, whatever, you know, no, it didn't show up, ya You know, trying to write songs like You'.

I heard with the Beach Boys and once he, once he left, what kind of state did he leave you guys in when he left? We wrote keep the faith and continued along the path. Here I'll tell you a nice anecdote about keeping the faith without You know we were coming back out of the fog, of course, and we're making the record and Richie says, but we have to go back to the basics, I mean, really like a garage B when we were Children, we want posters. the wall and the black lights in the room and the candles lit as if they were in the basement.

Okay, we enter my new house. You know, we're in the basement and we light all these candles. I put up these signs. I go to the store and buy everything. this crap we're writing and I took out the notebook and started playing these songs and I'm getting really lethargic and I'm thinking I hate this. I'm so bored I'm ready to fall asleep. I realized that there is no oxygen. in the room with all the damn candles the candles I open the windows I turn on the lights I'm going enough of this let's get back to work guys it's uh it's a real pleasure to have you here you're leaving You're going to play for us and we can't wait for you to light some candles, yeah, light some candles, you guys can close the doors and light the candles, uh, the album, the circle is out, now the single, uh, we, uh, we weren't born.

Next came out last Monday and the documentary, as Holly said, will be made between November 20th and 23rd and I really want to thank you, thank you very much.