- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you sang them all in a row.' But that's the kind of communication that happens, you know.
- Heather
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- Nov 07, 2020
That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020