Explore Quotes by Jon Bon Jovi

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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