Top 80 Rod Stewart Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I’m proud to be a railway modeler.

I love change, I need it.

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.

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

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

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

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.

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

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 was a bit of a sleeper-inner.

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

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

There’s no reason why I should retire.

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

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

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

I always thought I was so fit.

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

I don’t enjoy songwriting.

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

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

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

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.

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

I enjoyed the chase.

I carry lots of guilt.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

Women like being kissed.

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

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.

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

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’m not a natural songwriter.

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.

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

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

I’m a gentleman.

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

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

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

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

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

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.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

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

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

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

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’ve got Ferraris coming out me bum.

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

Everybody sung in my family.

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

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

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

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

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

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

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

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

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

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

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

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

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 am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

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

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

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.

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

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