Quotes from Jon Bon Jovi

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.

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

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

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.

Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I like progress but I hate change.