“Bruce [Springsteen] lives 15 minutes away from my house,” he says. “I’m going through this hard time so he’d come pick me up and we’d go for these 100-mile drives just to get away from phones, emails, people and talk.” (The pair go way back. Bon Jovi was still a 17-year-old high school student when Springsteen, already a star, jumped on stage to duet with him during one of his early New Jersey shows.) “But when we go driving we stop for an ice-cream cone or a soda, we are just regular New Jersey guys,” he says. “Don’t get me wrong, the kid in me still wants to get pulled over by the cops just so they can make us wind down the window and see who’s in the car.”
