Jon interview from Wednesday's Daily Mirror

It will be in the free magazine that comes with the paper on Wednesday. This is the interview that the paper done with Jon over 2 months ago, supposedly to coincide with the release of the new DVD!

a bit late then typical Daily Mirror

cool, cheers for letting us know

Ok i'll get it but i'll throw the rest of the paper away

thanks for letting us know

I might be on www.mirror.co.uk on Wednesday too.

Thanx, I will check the site Carli!

I'm not sure that articles from their magazines go on the site.

I've checked and could not find it. However, the transcript was posted in backstage, here it is:

"I'm not AFRAID of the Darkness !"
Jon Bon Jovi has been a rock god for twenty years, but with the band Bon Jovi taking a break and another baby due, he,s not sitting back just yet. There's Hollywood to conquer he tells Dan Carrier.
The Darkness are the hottest band of the moment.
just don't mention them to Jon Bon Jovi.
"I despise them they're are like Spinal Tap but they're not even funny'" says the tousle- haired rock god.
He wants nothing to do with the pretenders to his crown.
"We were away for five years and when we came back it was all boy bands," he says.
"we're a man band.Rock has become a joke he growls."
It goes to show that even though Bon Jovi have been going twenty years,there's still a lot of life left in Mr Bon Jovi yet-but perhaps not in the band he built.
Unlike other rockers, who can easily turn into dinosaurs churning out endless bland records and creakily doing gigs, Jon and the band want to avoid this 'awful fate'.
"I wont be a museum piece belting out 'Livin On A Prayer", he says.
And it means TLFR - the 11th album in a 20 year career with sales of more than 100 million -could be the bands last.
It's what Jon calls 're-imaging' of their greatest hits. The album which features 12 acoustic versions of Jovi's best known numbers and is out with a specially recorded concert DVD-looks suspiciously like he is calling time on rock 'n' roll.
I don't want to be living on a nostalgia trip from here on in,'says Jon.'We don't want to be an old band playing the same numbers over and over.
'Others do it and it puts me off.For example,i love the Rolling Stones,but i don't want to be doing what they're doing when i reach their age .'
Although he still looks young-the late nights have been kind to him-Jon is now 42 and admits he simply has other interests away from music.
'Don't get me wrong,music is still important, but i have other projects.Becoming a dad means being in a band does not have the same appeal,' he says.
'Having three children is a pretty rewarding full-time job'.
And one that is going to get harder. There is another mini-jovi on the way,with his childhood sweetheart, Dorothea,due to give birth in spring.
'We're very excited - we don't know if it's a boy or a girl and we don't want to know until it is born.' he says.
'Life has too few suprises as it is.'
But Jon won't be settling back with pipe and slippers once the baby is born,even though Bon Jovi the band are taking some time out.
'Retirement ? he says.'Bon Jovi taking a back seat doesn't mean Jon is too.I've got too much energy to retire.'
This means he's looking for work, and that means the movies.
It started when he joined his friend Emilio Estervez in the western action comedy Young Guns II. He wrote the song 'Blaze Of Glory' for the soundtrack and bagged a golden globe for his troubles.It set him off thinking about a career-post Jovi.
'The band will always be there ,but now i want to explore other sises of my creativity,'he says.
He has two acting offers on the table and is waiting anxiously to see if a film he has written will be given the go-ahead.
'I can do drama,comedy,action', he says.
'My music is not all the same tempo,so why should my acting be ? I like writing too.I find dialogue hard,but story lines easier.'
He's even bought an American football team,called Philadelphia Soul,and is keen to run it as a socially responsible
buisness and make it more accessible to fans.
It's another facet of how Jon has changed since tha days of touring the world,of being part of a rock circus.The Eighties are long gone.This is a 2004 Bon Jovi,one who talks a lot about giving things back to the community that as made him.
'New Jersey,where i'm from,was devastated bt september 11,' he says.The tragedy helped nurture a strong political sense within him.
'The workers in the the Twin Towers,and the firemen who went to save them,commuted from New Jersey.
'Everyone there knows someone who was lost that day.But i'm not altogether happy with how our country reacted to it.
The war on terror as created more problems than it as solved.'
He draws himself up and speaks in measured tones like a politician.So does he have any political ambitions himself ?
Would he do an 'Arnie' and run for govenor ?
'Govenor Bon Jovi ?' he smiles. 'Sounds good,but perhaps too much hard work.President, on the other hand ...'

I didn't want to make a new post just with the transcript and at the same time didn't know if I could edit the title of this tread. Maybe one of the mods could do it.

I know the Mirror is hardly a reliable source, and that isn't a quote from Jon, but hopefully very wrong.