Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

I'm a good blend of both my mom and dad.

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

When I see two guys kissing, I'm like, how come I can't kiss one of those guys? They look like they're having a good time.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.