As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You’ve got to admit it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full. – Rod Stewart
I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I’ll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It’s never been easy for me. – Rod Stewart
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. – Rod Stewart
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
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it’s because I’m a real working-class. – Rod Stewart
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. – Rod Stewart
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes – that’s man’s work, let me tell you. – Rod Stewart
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. – Rod Stewart
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
Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they’ve generally achieved what they wanted, and they’re more settled. – Rod Stewart
I don’t think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don’t wear it just because I think I have to. I’m a very flamboyant person. – 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. – Rod Stewart
