Rod Stewart Quotations

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion.

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

I have lived a great life. I am very happy.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.

I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You've got to admit it. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.

Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

You know, it's just my dream came true.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

If we can't reschedule the shows, we have to give the money back,

I have never had such a nervous day in my life,

His solo career kept us together. When we toured, we'd reach more people, and with his success, it was now our success,