Rod Stewart Quotes

May the good Lord be with you down every road you roam, and may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home. And may you grow to be proud, dignified and true; and do unto others as you'd have done to you. Be courageous and be brave and in my heart you'll always stay forever young.
May good fortune be with you, may your guiding light be strong; build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond. And may you never love in vain and in my heart you will remain forever young.
And when you finally fly away I'll be hoping that I served you well, for all the wisdom of a lifetime no one can ever tell. But whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you, win or lose, forever young.

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

Women like being kissed.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.

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

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

Everybody sung in my family.

I am always crazy for hot women. I am like a rabbit. I could do it anytime, anywhere.

You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

Love is just a hole in the wall.

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

Even the President needs passion.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I carry lots of guilt.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

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.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

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.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying.

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

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - etcetera, etcetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)

..the power outage caused the stage manager to drop the curtain - much to the surprise of Ronnie Wood, who was standing directly underneath it at the time and was almost killed by about half a ton of falling velvet (because, let me tell you, in those days a curtain was a curtain.) It was while we were backstage, getting the power restored, that I noticed I had spent the entire opening number with my flies undone.

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.

The first cut is the deepest.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

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

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

Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

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

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.

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

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

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

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.

Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

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

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

We all need a laugh and I guess you're just the one.

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.

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

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

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

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.

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.

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

A set list? Set lists were for wimps. Wimps and professionals. Better to just get out there and communicate the set by shouting the old Faces' battle cry: "What number are we doing?

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

Optimism is my best defense.

I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

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.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

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

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.

The secret is to moisturize the face. I've been doing that since I was 17 years old. (on looking young)

Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

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.

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

There's nobody I look up to, really.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

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.

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

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

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

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

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

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 enjoyed the chase.

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.

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

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

There's no reason why I should retire.

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