Quotes from Rod Stewart

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 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.

I love change, I need it.

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

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.

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

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

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'm a gentleman.

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

I've been a golden boy for too long.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

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

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.

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

I don't have any social life or anything.

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

I carry lots of guilt.

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

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

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.