Rod Stewart quotes:

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.

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

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

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

As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You've got to admit it. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

Women like being kissed.

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

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.

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 love change, I need it.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

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 suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

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

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

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

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

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

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

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

There's nobody I look up to, really.

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

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

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

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

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.

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

You got amphetamine eyes.

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

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

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.

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

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

Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!

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.

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

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.

So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.

You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

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

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

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

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

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

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

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

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

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.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

You can keep your Streisands.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

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

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

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

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

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

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

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.

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 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.

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.

Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea.

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

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

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

There's no reason why I should retire.

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

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

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

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

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

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.

You know, it's just my dream came true.

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

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

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.

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

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Even the President needs passion.

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

Everybody sung in my family.

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

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.

I always thought I was so fit.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

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

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.

I carry lots of guilt.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

I don't have any social life or anything.

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

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.