To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.

Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.