I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

When Faith dawn, fear fades.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.