Quotes from Rod Stewart

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

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

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.

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 was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

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

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.

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

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've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

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

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

Everybody sung in my family.

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.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

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

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

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

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.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

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

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

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