A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Find your inside beautyness. For me, being beautiful inside is more important that being beautiful outside. Make-up is so good for that because it helps to show your personality.

You need to love what youre doing.

We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work.

Action takes precedence over study.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.