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. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
I don’t work well outside the lines; my report card once read, ‘doesn’t play well with others.’ – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren’t that successful. – Jon Bon Jovi
I always think I’m the Tom Cruise of music – a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
If you wanted to torture me, you’d tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – Jon Bon Jovi
Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that’ll get you by for 10 weeks. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – 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. – Jon Bon Jovi
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. – Jon Bon Jovi
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you. – Jon Bon Jovi
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. – Jon Bon Jovi
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. – 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? – Jon Bon Jovi
You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don’t light a match when you kiss me. – Jon Bon Jovi
