Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials, " said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.

The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of ‘objection’. It is a path of giving ‘no objection’. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

autism is more like retina patterns than measles

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

I've never let a rhinestone go unturned

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.