You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.