Quotes by Finnish authors

"There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think"

"Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that"

"When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock"

"It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition"

"Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion"

"In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting"

"My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming"

"I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that"

"In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics"

"When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next"

"I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity"

"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money"

"Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it"

"I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel"

"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds"

"I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music"

"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes"

"I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness"

"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully"

"I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either"

"Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done"

"That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens"

"I've always been a huge reggae fan"

"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens"

"Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks"

"Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention"

"So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out"

"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business"

"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much"

"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame"