Jon Bon Jovi quotes:

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?

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.

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.

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

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

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

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

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.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I like progress but I hate change.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

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.

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

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

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

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

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

The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn't need any more gray. On the other hand, we can't get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody's goal and perfection shouldn't be either. We'll never be perfect. But remember these three P's: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

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

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

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

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

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

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

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

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

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

And I laughed so hard I think I died

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

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'd rather die than fade away

Nothing is as important as passion.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

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?

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

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

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.

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 think record companies are criminals.

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

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

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.

I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me

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

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

I'm not a big disco guy.

I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Nobody's dumb in this relationship 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 was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you

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.

A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

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.

PARTY POLITICS DIVIDES FRIENDSHIPS SOMETIMES.

IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO STAND BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE GREAT MANSION AND PLAY ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE BACK.

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

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.