Wealth & Money Quote by Ron Wood

There is a rock-star honesty to Ron Wood admitting he is "terrible with money", and the repetition is the point: "absolutely awful" isn’t just emphasis, it’s a shrug turned into a punchline. Wood frames financial incompetence as a kind of ongoing slapstick, the way you’d talk about constantly misplacing your keys. The casual cadence makes irresponsibility sound almost inevitable, even charming - a survival tactic for someone whose public image has long traded on looseness, excess, and the messy glamour of not living like an accountant.

The subtext is more loaded than the self-deprecation suggests. "Always losing it" slips between meanings: literally misplacing cash, metaphorically hemorrhaging wealth through chaos, addiction, bad deals, hangers-on, or the predatory economics that follow famous musicians. It also nods to how the music business historically worked for artists of Wood’s generation: touring riches alongside label contracts, managers, and taxes designed to turn success into a mirage. Saying you "lose" money blurs agency; it’s not squandered, it vanishes - which softens blame while hinting at forces outside your control.

Culturally, the line lands because it reinforces a familiar pact between rock and the public: genius is allowed to be impractical. The confession doesn’t ask for sympathy so much as it protects an identity - the guy who plays like he lives, and lives like consequences are someone else’s genre.