I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.
— Rod Stewart
It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.
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.
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.
You know, it's just my dream came true.
You know, I had no trouble with the girls.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
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've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
I've never done anything particularly scandalous.
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.
There is this power that comes with being famous.
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.
I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.
I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.
You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.
I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
I'm a gentleman.
Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.
I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
I love change, I need it.
I've been a golden boy for too long.
I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.
I never feel any aggravation from the public.
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.
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.
Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.
Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.
I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.
Everybody sung in my family.
My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
I don't have any social life or anything.
I carry lots of guilt.
Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.
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.
I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.
I do my bit for charity.
