Quotes By Rod Stewart

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

There's no reason why I should retire.

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.

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.

I don't have any social life or anything.

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.

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.

Everybody sung in my family.

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

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.

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

I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.

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

I enjoyed the chase.

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion.