I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.

If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That's they way I feel.

I've learned a ton since 2004.

I could never acceptlife as it was, I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts, tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

With knowing comes caring.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.