Quotes By Jon Bon Jovi

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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'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.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

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?

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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