Top 90 Jon Bon Jovi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’d crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

52. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

55. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

56. “RICHIE: My journey has been steadfast: to be Jon’s right-hand man. First and foremost, I try to always be there for him, as a friend, on a musical level, and from a business standpoint where he can use me as a mirror for himself. We’ve always looked to Frank and Dean. Frank was the Chairman and Dean was the right-hand man. That’s the way it was. It was a dynamic duo.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

57. “I would kick this bad world’s ass if I could just get on my feet.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

58. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

59. “If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren’t that successful.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

60. “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

61. “I always think I’m the Tom Cruise of music – a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

62. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

64. “JON: Lost Highway was an introspective record because we took a look at ourselves and left ourselves open to scrutiny by sharing those situations and feelings beyond the four of us. It was a great growth record. We were in a place where we had something to write about and turn our lives into big, broad subject matter.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

65. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

66. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

70. “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

71. “I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

72. “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

73. “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

74. “You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn’t consider it myself. I am too well-informed.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

75. “I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don’t ask for anything, except for health.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

76. “Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, “You’re so straight, we’re not interested.””

— Jon Bon Jovi

77. “If you wanted to torture me, you’d tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

78. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

79. “I don’t work well outside the lines; my report card once read, ‘doesn’t play well with others.’”

— Jon Bon Jovi

80. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

81. “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

82. “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

83. “I think record companies are criminals.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

84. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

85. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

86. “The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let’s get rid of all this nuclear testing.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

88. “Elton John said to me, “I have all the negatives.””

— Jon Bon Jovi

89. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

90. “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?”

— Jon Bon Jovi

91. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Jon Bon Jovi

93. “We’ve been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?”

— Jon Bon Jovi

94. “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

95. “I’m a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

96. “RICHIE: When it comes down to Jon and I writing a song, it’s pure. We’re not thinking about business. We’ve written specific songs earlier in our careers saying, “This is going to work in an arena” or “This will work in a stadium.” They were specifically made to get the crowd ready, get everybody’s dander up, and deliver the knockout punch.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

97. “I’m not a big disco guy.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

98. “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.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

99. “RICHIE: Part of what I do and what I’ve always done, consciously, is really try to bring a good feeling to the organization. I’m not a guy who is shy about saying, “Hey, I love you,” and giving you a hug. If.”

— Jon Bon Jovi