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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

The only fight you cannot win is the one you are not willing to fight. And the only dream that you cannot make come true is the one you cease to dream.