Quotes by Finnish authors

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place"

"Women are always beautiful"

"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath"

"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song"

"Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it"

"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more"

"I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US"

"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"

"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays"

"It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation"

"I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day"

"Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion"