During an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on August 21, the Bon Jovi singer opened up about his vocal surgery to repair his vocal cords, and his return to the studio after the surgery:
“It was hard because you speak and you say, ‘Okay, I sound like me.’ When you hear yourself back through the speakers, that’s when you hear yourself for the first time. And I didn’t sound like me.
”But that was 15, 16 months ago. So that threw me for a loop. And by the time I got around to making the (Bon Jovi’s) ”Forever”, it was all good. But the initial reaction was a shock because of the change. And so you have to get over that. And the healing wasn’t done yet. That’s all.”