“I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.”

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.

You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.

It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.

When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.

On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.

My mother had very humble beginnings – to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning – ‘no foolishness,’ as he would call it.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it’s the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it’s a meal that your mother made.

It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.

The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.