Quotes By Jon Bon Jovi

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

I'm not a big disco guy.

My health and my family are the core of my being.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I like progress but I hate change.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.