Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere..

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

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

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

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet..

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the m….

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money..

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog..

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would hav….

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 spee….

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during ….

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

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't ap….

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

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot..

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car..

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

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 ….

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race..