3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart 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.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart 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.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart 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.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart I can definitely say the older I’ve got the better I’ve become at being a dad and a husband.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart 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.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart I have a very lively and colourful show. It’s two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
