He's coming from the tough side of the tracks, and he has done extraordinarily well. I'm told he is a very, very quick study.

He may look like a big, blurry Irishman, but he's not as tough as he may seem, there's a side to him that a lot of people don't see.

I like Brno, Motegi, Sepang, Qatar... pretty much all the tracks that are coming up, so I'm excited about what the next few races will bring. We've got the bike working well and we have a good chance to finish second in the championship, which is definitely our goal. Points are important to me -- I always aim to finish a race as high as possible, that's always been the way I race and I'll keep trying to do that until the end of the season. At the same time it would be great to win a race...so I'm going to try for both!

I was basically in the room, and they told me to get out there. It's tough, but I have to be ready.

We actually go to king school to learn to use the scepter. You first acknowledge the people upstairs who came to view.

There's another side of the story that ought to be told.