Jon Bon Jovi Talks His Career, Marriage, And Aging Gracefully: ‘I’ll Embrace The Grey Hair — But I Won’t Become Fat Elvis’

“We’ve got to hold on to what we’ve got.” Well, Jon Bon Jovi is more than fine letting yesteryear pass him by, and would rather embrace his old age.

Jon sat down with Celia Walden of The Telegraph to talk about everything from his career, his marriage, being fine with aging, and even Mark Wahlberg. Yes, the Mark Wahlberg. “Who is living the better life?” Jon pondered. “Mark or the guy I was just sipping wine with in a little village outside of Narbonne? Because I think hard about that guy as an example of who is living this short period of time on earth best. I’m certainly living life fully. In fact, I must have been living life really fully on the day Marky wrote about his sit-ups on social media, which was why I didn’t even take the time to read it.”

Poor Mark.

Jon is making sure to live every minute of his life, even being all about his grey hair. “Yup, I’m the guy who embraced going grey! There are a lot of gentlemen out there whose names I won’t mention — and none of them have embraced the real them, have they?” he shared. So yes to the grey hair, but how about those tight rocker leather pants? “Oh I was done with leather pants at 30,” Jon said. “The only man who pulls off leather trousers at any age is Mick Jagger. But he’s the exception to that rule because he’s the greatest of them all.”

Jon made it clear that he was done with that whole rock look as the years went by. “I remember saying, ‘The day I turn 50 and I’m still writing ‘b–ch’ on my belly and painting my fingernails black, I’m quitting,’” Jon said. “Equally the day I’m not doing this in the style to which I’m accustomed, I’m quitting. So yes I’ll embrace the grey hair — but I won’t become fat Elvis.”