The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It's lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations, and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.

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

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them.

When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

[talking about the race at Imola circuit] There are no small accidents on this circuit.