Jon Bon Jovi caught up with Billboard's Katie Bain at MusiCares Person of the Year 2024.
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00:00 So we've seen people in Ukraine listening to It's My Life, getting ready for battle.
00:03 We've seen a park full of people burst into song singing Living on a Prayer.
00:09 What does it mean to you to have your songs be so woven into the cultural fabric?
00:13 It's beyond words. You know, you write a song for yourself.
00:17 If you get it right and you're that moved,
00:24 what you'll find is somebody else relates to it in that way.
00:27 I can craft you a song, but Moon, June and Spoon isn't the greatest, you know, moving rhyme scheme.
00:34 But then you write something like It's My Life or Living on a Prayer,
00:37 and those lyrics, they transcend language barriers, generations, borders.
00:43 President Zelensky literally wrote me a two-page handwritten letter
00:48 to say what It's My Life has meant to the people of Ukraine.
00:51 I have to go there.
00:52 Are you going to go?
00:54 I would love to go.
00:55 That's incredible. Congratulations and thank you for everything.
00:58 Thanks.
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