Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

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.

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

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?

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

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

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.

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...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...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.

It's my life and it's now or never.

You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.

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

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

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.

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.

Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

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.

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?

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.

Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

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

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

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

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.

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

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

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.

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.

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

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.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

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

I'd rather die than fade away

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

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.