The first cut is the deepest.

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The first cut is the deepest.

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.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

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.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

Everybody sung in my family.

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

I always thought I was so fit.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

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 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 can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I carry lots of guilt.

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.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

I do my bit for charity.

I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

I don't have any social life or anything.

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.

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

I enjoyed the chase.

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

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

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

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

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

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.

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

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

I love change, I need it.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.