Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.