In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.