A biography for Jon Bon Jovihasn’t been written yet.
“I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.”
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”
“I'm not a big disco guy.”
“I like progress but I hate change.”
“If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Falling in love is painful on the knees.”