Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Jon Bon Jovi

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?

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

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

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

I like progress but I hate change.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not a big disco guy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

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

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Passion + Persistence = Possibility