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I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, Go buy a postage stamp in London, I will go and do it.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it is only us. And we are only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that is actually what I aspired to be.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I will see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

If a dad does his job, we do not need prisons, we do not need jails. That is what I saw growing up.

I have become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household was not a man made a big difference.

I was always the new kid in school, I am the kid from a broken family, I am the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I am the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

Every kid needs to say, I want what my mom and dad have.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I do not think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, You can become an Olympic champion. And that is the first time that I do heard someone else say that to me. I was like, Uh, are you talking to me?'

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there is no way that is going to happen while I am still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you are away from home for long periods. That is not the kind of father I want to be.