I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

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.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

No one survives life.

My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.