I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other peoples songs, way back when, and thats what I enjoy the most. And Im a lazy bugger. – Rod Stewart
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when youre at the top, its so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. – Rod Stewart
It wasnt not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because Im still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel Ive got more to give than I ever have. – Gary Barlow
The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen