Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. Its the image, not what you sing. – 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
Its been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that theyve got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. – Jane Campion
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot