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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Education is the freedom of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. But been educated does not guarantee success in life, but it's the key to everlasting life.

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

The boy was painted in his pain

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music

When in trouble, mumble.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.