Rod Stewart's Quotes

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

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

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

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 got Ferraris coming out me bum.

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.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

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

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

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.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

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

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

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

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.

The first cut is the deepest.

There's no reason why I should retire.

There's nobody I look up to, really.

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

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

Women like being kissed.

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.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

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

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

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.

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

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

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

I carry lots of guilt.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

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

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

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

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

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

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

Everybody sung in my family.

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

I always thought I was so fit.