As a driver you enjoy winning races and, if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip-and-tuck stuff.

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

First, you wounded a lion, and then you invite him to feast.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.