There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

I have always liked a challenge.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.