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.

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.

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

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

You got amphetamine eyes.

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

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

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.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You can keep your Streisands.

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

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.

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

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

I don't enjoy songwriting.

The first cut is the deepest.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Tonight's the night. It's gonna be alright.

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.

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.

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

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

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