“Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.”

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.

I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.

Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.

If I feel like something’s gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.

I think we don’t need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food. There’s a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he’d be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn’t get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.

Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.

If we didn’t have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars – there’s one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Right now I’m the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there’s not going to be any other silent movies.

You quickly realize that no matter who you’re talking to, how famous, brilliant or wealthy they are, they are just “people.”

We became the songs we wrote.

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.

I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.

Good people are always so sure they’re right.