I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set.

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this understanding alone, that the drive comes to work hard at overcoming them.

I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.