On thursday Monaco, on friday London, on saturday Hamburg, on sunday New York, constantly on the road, constantly busy. Two movies are in the can again, he's filming the next one right now, and his new solo-album "Destination Anywhere" just hit the stores.

Aren't you able to occupy yourself with your wife and your kids, Jon Bon Jovi?
"Sure, sure. I always say, you have to work hard and enjoy life hard afterwards. If I don't have anything to do, I just unnerve my family anyway."

Do you have any hobbies at all?
"Just recently we all went skiing So far I only dare to go on the beginner-slopes, cos I constantly fall down. And apart from that it's pretty unnerving to constantly have four-year-olds whizz by next to you."

The new album somewhat cryptically is called "Destination Anywhere". So where is it going to?
"Well, I wanted to have it sound differently than the band. Originally it was my plan to work with 5 different producers. I tried to record with David Foster, but that didn't work out. Then I went to Bruce Fairbairn, but under his direction the songs sounded just like Bon Jovi. So I stuck with only two people, Steve Lironi and Dave Stewart. I mean, I can't always do the same record over again as AC/DC and Aerosmith do. No, I prefer to take some risks."

So how was your cooperation with Dave Stewart? The man is known as a pretty eccentric person.
"I admire him. I first met him at a barbecue-party of Bruce Willis' in London, where I was filming "Leading Man". Songwriting with him was pretty wild, cos he constantly jumped up to show me something in his
house. At some point he flew to India together with Demi Moore for a week. Just like that, because he just wanted to. I've never done something like that in my whole life. With me it's always been: "Alright, what will we do next? A movie, a record or are we going to go on tour?""

But doesn't the new album-title somehow propose you're tired of all this?
"No, I've gone through that stage. After our "New Jersey"-Album and that tour I lost the fun at the beginning of the 90s. That's when I took a bike-ride through the desert to free my mind. Ever since I've been doing fine. I really think, my life is pretty cool. When we did the first record I thought: "It will never be as cool as it is now." Then followed "Slippery When Wet". When I thought we would never be able to make a record that successful, along came the "Greatest Hits" and sold even much, much better than "Slippery When Wet"."

Everything you touch turns to gold. Doesn't that bore you?
"You can't say it like that, cos my last movie "The Leading Man" didn't even go into the theatres in the USA. You put so much energy and love into one thing, and then it's all in vain. Hollywood lets me know very intensely that they haven't just waited for me - this rock 'n roll-guy - to come along. The hand-shaking with all those big movie-bosses - it really sucks! But who knows, what's going to happen. If somebody would have told me 10 years ago, that I would ever do a movie, I would have declared him nuts. I don't fear to fail."

On your album we get to know some things about Jon Bon Jovi, the private one. Like how you had sex with your girl-friend for the first time. That's what "It's just me" is about, isn't it?
"So you listened to that really well, haven't you? That's been 17 years now. Dorothea was going out with another guy from our high school at the time, but he must have not been around then. It was mid-summer, in the broad daylight. We went down to the beach, and I covered us up with a blanket. And then we did it for the first time. We've been together ever since. The whole song is a little thank you to my wife. For sure she didn't have it easy with me all the time."

"Janie" seems to be about a very immense fight with your wife.
"I know couples, who think, their relationship would become closer, if they constantly fight. We think, that's nuts, and that's why we really don't fight that often. I wrote this song in the hotel after a little bust-up on our last tour. I was drunk and don't even remember what the fight was all about. I absquatulated into the bathroom with my guitar and didn't dare to come out all night. So I did the best with a stupid situation - and wrote a song about it."

"August 7th" deals with the murder of your manager Paul Korzilius' daughter last year. Are you more worried about your kids Stephanie and Jesse since then?
"Sure, but what am I supposed to do? We don't have any bodyguards for the kids. I couldn't do that to them. I don't crave more for anything than for us to be a normal family. I'm not the one who needs a huge
hotel-suite or who says: "Away with those strawberries, they're too red for me." I'm pretty simple. But I guess, in this job you're not allowed to be normal."