Rod Stewart Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.

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

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

I am always crazy for hot women. I am like a rabbit. I could do it anytime, anywhere.

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 wish I knew what I know now before.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

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.

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

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

The first cut is the deepest.

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

Trivia

Rod Stewart's song Maggie May is ranked #69 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.

In 1989, he performed in the first concert ever put on in Toronto’s SkyDome.

He won a 1994 MTV Movie award for Best Movie Song (shared with Bryan Adams and Sting) for the song “All For Love” from the movie The Three Musketeers.

At the 2001 World Music Awards he received a Diamond Award for selling over 100 million records worldwide.

Rod Stewart applied for US citizenship in 1975.

He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000.

In 1994, Rod Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Rod’s mega-hit “Maggie May” was originally released as the B-side of “Reason to Believe”.

Rod joined ‘the Jeff Beck Group’ in 1968.

Early in his music career, while working as a street singer, he was deported from Spain for Vagrancy.

He got the name “Rod the Mod” after appearing on a 1965 BBC documentary on the Mod movement.

Before going into music Rod signed to play football (soccer) with Brentford F.C. in West London.