Some rock ‘n’ roll marriages give love a bad name, but not Jon Bon Jovi’s.
“Somehow I became the poster boy for a long married rock star.
But I’ll accept the mantle because I’m so happy,” the singer toldPeople.
That’s not to saytheir marriageis a perfect one.
So, what’s their recipe for success?
Mutual respect, Bon Jovi toldPeople.
Having grown up togetherandgrown together.
And we really like each other.
We want to hang out.
“I write songs.
I happen to be very good at performing them.
That’s it,” he said.
Bongiovi echoed her husband’s sentiment toPeople: “Somehow it works.
… We grew equally and not in opposite directions.”
1 album in the country, and spawned two No.
“It was like Harry Styles or Justin Timberlake getting married.
I was that to the young girls in my time,” Bon Jovi described toMirror.
But the fans weren’t the only ones who weren’t happy.
“When I came back from Vegas my manager was furious.
He was like, ‘America’s boy is now married … that’s not a good career move.’
The record company was also despondent,” he said.
“It didn’t fare well with my mother, either.”
Though it may have seemed like rash decision, they didn’t take their marriage lightly.
And today they are still as happy as those kids who ran off to elope in Vegas.
“These are all the wonderful cliches of rock stardom,” he toldThe Independent.
In anABC interviewwith Michael Strahan, he confessed, “I got away with murder.”
“She’s been in it the whole game.
She understands what it means.
It’s my life, and it is what it is.”
You’re never going to read that story about me.
I have no regard for that whole lifestyle."
“We did 240 shows, went home and immediately started writing and recording New Jersey.
We then went back on the road with another 240 shows.
It was just too much,” Bon Jovi toldMirror.
“I’m the crazy visionary with all kinds of things flying, and the seams are all splitting.
That’s not to say that they don’t enjoy their hard-earned success, though.
It’s the love and the dedication to family that keeps the Bon Jovi clan going strong.
In other words, they have nothing to prove.
You know, watching TV together and sitting on the couch and making a cup of tea.
She knows how grateful I am for everything.”
“We never really drag the kids to things,” Dorothea toldPeople.
“I never pointed at the TV and said, ‘There’s Daddy!’
We try hard just to give our kids a normal life.”
Whatever they are doing seems to have worked.
“We like each other.”
It’s a partnership.
When we see injustice or people suffering, you want to help.
We’re very blessed, and we have the ability to do that, she toldPeople.
That drive to give back to the community earned Bon Jovi the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year award.
