In a new interview with Germany’s Rock Antenne, Jon Bon Jovi was asked if there is anything in this career where he would say, “I should have done this differently.”
He responded:
“Very few things — honest to god, very few things. Some things happened that are the catalyst for why other good things happen. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t wish that Richie [Sambora, former BON JOVI guitarist] had his life together and was still in the band.
He added:
“And yet, in a weird way, it’s because of his inability to get it together anymore that we went on and wrote ‘This House Is Not For Sale’. It was a very strong record, and that I’m able to write songs like this… Maybe we would’ve gotten lazy… I don’t know where we would have gone, but through all that pain and heartbreak came this.”
BON JOVI‘s new album, “2020”, was released on October 2 via Island Records.