Top 140 Rod Stewart Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It was early detection that saved my voice – and I imagine, my life.”

— Rod Stewart

102. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

103. “Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it’s just not.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

105. “I’ve been lucky with my hair. I couldn’t deal with it if I’d run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.”

— Rod Stewart

106. “Is it my sweat that’s no longer sweet?”

— Rod Stewart

107. “I’ve always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it’s my song, I can make it seem honest.”

— Rod Stewart

108. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

110. “I never feel any aggravation from the public.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

112. “I’ve been a golden boy for too long.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

115. “You can keep your Streisands.”

— Rod Stewart

116. “Everybody sung in my family.”

— Rod Stewart

117. “Although I’m living in California, I’m very proud to be British.”

— Rod Stewart

118. “I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.”

— Rod Stewart

119. “I’ve always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.”

— Rod Stewart

120. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

121. “If the father is not straight naider will be the son.”

— Rod Stewart

122. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

123. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

124. “I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

127. “You know, I had no trouble with the girls.”

— Rod Stewart

128. “I can definitely say the older I’ve got the better I’ve become at being a dad and a husband.”

— Rod Stewart

129. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

130. “Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

132. “I’ve never done anything particularly scandalous.”

— Rod Stewart

133. “I’m just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

135. “Everybody sings from their diaphragm.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Rod Stewart

137. “I don’t enjoy songwriting.”

— Rod Stewart

138. “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.”

— Rod Stewart

139. “In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.”

— Rod Stewart

140. “I always thought I was so fit.”

— Rod Stewart

141. “I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.”

— Rod Stewart

142. “Obviously, I haven’t really progressed that much at my craft.”

— Rod Stewart

143. “Songwriting’s never been a natural art for me; it’s always been a bit of a struggle.”

— Rod Stewart

144. “I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out – do work out a lot.”

— Rod Stewart