I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.