You can say I'm crazy, but three years ago, I was at home on the couch watching races like this.

I've been in their shoes, and it's hard. It's great to see somebody at least have that opportunity.

When we go to Richmond [to race], hopefully we can do the same things we do in testing, and I can go out and practice and get the car running good instead of learning the track. That's what is going to help me out a lot, just learning the track.

Actually, I was just happy to finish a Busch race. That was actually the first one I ever finished.

Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.