For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

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.

This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.

I am the seeker of love, I am the giver of love, and I became the love.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?