I never feel any aggravation from the public.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? 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.