Rod Stewart Quotes

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.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

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.

Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.

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

I always thought I was so fit.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

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

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

Optimism is my best defense.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.

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

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out.

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

I'm not a natural songwriter.

Women like being kissed.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

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

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not sure of what the potential power of the Web is, but it is something that is here to stay, so it needs to be dealt with...It's kinda cool, though, for the fans ... because it makes what is basically a huge worldwide venue into an intimate one-on-one. I don't know of many concert halls that can do that.

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

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

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

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

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.

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

You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.

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

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

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. It's like me. I've been around long enough and I've come back in fashion.

Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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