Quotes By Jon Bon Jovi

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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