With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Our larger goal is to tell the story

Most people have to date or court other people before they meet the one.

Pain? He could handle that, no problem; it was the idea that the female he loved was suffering that made him want to either punch something or vomit in the corner.