Quotes By Jon Bon Jovi

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

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.

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

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

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