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.

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.

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.

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.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.