Richie Sambora
Richie Sambora
Richard Stephen "Richie" Samborais an American rock guitarist, producer, singer and songwriter who was the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi for 30 years. Sambora and lead singer Jon Bon Jovi formed the primary songwriting unit of the band. He has also released three solo albums: Stranger in This Town in 1991, Undiscovered Soul in 1998, and Aftermath of the Lowdown, released in September 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth11 July 1959
CityPerth Amboy, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
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.
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.
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.
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.
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.
I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid.
Last time I saw you was backstage in Melbourne. You had just been through that thing with the guy and the rice.
Guy can't get a job at the refinery, or guy hates his job at the factory, or guy lost his job at the refinery or the factory. Then he gets in his car and drives around. It's all so tongue-in-cheek, ya know? Most of New Jersey doesn't even have refineries. What is a refinery, anyway?
God, it feels as if we're as big as we've ever been.
The Army guys were kind enough to give us their big theater they have there, and at the end of the rehearsals, we're going to do a show for all of the (soldiers) and their families, ... It's not open to the public. We're just doing anything we can do. Really, it's just any time you can give back to those guys who are out there fighting for our freedom, for God's sakes.
We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.