About Jon Bon Jovi: John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor, best known as the founder and frontman of rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.
I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
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.
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.
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'm not a big disco guy.
I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
Falling in love is painful on the knees.
Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
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'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 hour...
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.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
