I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believethey love liberty.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.