Creativity Quote by Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart lands this like a punchline you laugh at and then immediately side-eye. The setup is domestic and familiar - “getting married again” - but he swerves into a transactional workaround: skip the romance, skip the vows, just pay the emotional cost up front. It’s a joke built on a grim bit of arithmetic: marriage as a legal and financial machine that, at least for a wealthy man with a public divorce history, can feel less like devotion and more like an expensive redistribution of assets.

The intent is self-protective comedy. By framing matrimony as something you’d rationally avoid, Stewart recasts himself as the guy who’s learned the hard way, turning private loss into a one-liner. The subtext is gendered and revealing: the “woman I don’t like” isn’t an individual with agency so much as a stand-in for an institution that he feels punishes him. The house becomes both payoff and prophylactic - a blunt symbol of how affection, resentment, and property get braided together when relationships are mediated by courts and tabloids.

Context matters: Stewart’s celebrity life has been long enough to include multiple relationships, wealth, and the kind of scrutiny that turns breakups into public accounting. That’s why the line works culturally. It taps into a popular, slightly sour tradition of divorce humor - the rock-star version of the old “it’s cheaper to keep her” gag - updated for an era when marriage is marketed as personal fulfillment but still functions as contract law.