Rod Stewart

Singer

1945-01-10

English singer and songwriter known for a career spanning rock, pop, and soul. He first rose to prominence with the Jeff Beck Group and Faces before major solo success.

Quotes by Rod Stewart

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
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I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
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I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
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I'm not a natural songwriter.
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I don't enjoy songwriting.
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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.
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Everybody sung in my family.
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Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.
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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.
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You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.
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I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
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Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
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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.
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Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.
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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.
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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
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You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
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I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
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I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.
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