You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

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

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.