A biography for Rod Stewarthasn’t been written yet.
“I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.”
“You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.”
“My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.”
“Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.”
“I enjoyed the chase.”
“I wish I knew what I know now before.”
“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'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've never done anything particularly scandalous.”
“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'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.”
“I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.”
“Women like being kissed.”
“My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.”
“Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.”
“I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.”
“I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.”
“Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.”
“It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.”
“Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.”