To have some idea what it’s like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he’s 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I – a car?

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you’re saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.

In the end I didn’t get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I’m not thinking about that side of things. I’m thinking about the car, I’m thinking about the race and I’m thinking about how to make the car faster.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven’t come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.