My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

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

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.

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.

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.

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

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