I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.

Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

The only faithful tradition is change.

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need – true peace.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.