Rod Stewart Quotes

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

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

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

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

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

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

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

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

Optimism is my best defense.

I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.

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

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

You got amphetamine eyes.

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.

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

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

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

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

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

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

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

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

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

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

I'm going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe I can do anything I've got strength of the soul And no one's gonna bend or break me I can reach any star I've got faith I've got faith Faith of the heart

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

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 - et cetera, et cetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)

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 wish I knew what I know now before.

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

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

You can keep your Streisands.

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

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.

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

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

The first cut is the deepest.

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

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

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

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 don't enjoy songwriting.

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

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

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.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

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