Jon Bon Jovi

“Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.”

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

“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.”

“Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.”

“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”

“Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”

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

“We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.”

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

“This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.”

“My health and my family are the core of my being.”

“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.”

“What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.”

“Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear”