Quotes By Rod Stewart

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

I don't enjoy songwriting.

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

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

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

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

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

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

I do my bit for charity.

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

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.

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

There's no reason why I should retire.

I don't have any social life or anything.

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 suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

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

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

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

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

Everybody sung in my family.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

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.