Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

To find the universal elements enough

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be, ' restored the status quo.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Happy, calm children learn best

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience