I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport [auto racing] more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.