Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.

The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

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

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

And I laughed so hard I think I died

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

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.

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.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

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

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

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

Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.

It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song

I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.

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

Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn't see
For parting my lips
When I couldn?t breathe
Thank you for loving me

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

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

We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.

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

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 would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.

We're always looking for something.

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.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

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.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

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.

In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.

If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.

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

You can't win until you're not afraid to lose.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

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 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.

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 spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

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.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

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

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

I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS OUR NEIGHBOR IS, AND THE IDEA THAT, I'M MY BROTHER'S KEEPER WORKS FOR ME.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.

My heart is like an open highway ... people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. IT'S A CRAFT LIKE EVERY OTHER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP SHARP AND YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

I'll be there forever and a day - Always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst and
The words don't rhyme
And I know when I die, you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you - Always

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.

I like progress but I hate change.

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.

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.

It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me."

I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.