Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.
I'll always give it my all, and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega.
I don't go out. I work, go racing, then go to my shed and make things.
People who race bikes don't talk about crashes. They keep going.
If you get beaten, and you know that you tried your hardest and kept your focus, then that's all you can do.
When I crash during a race and injure myself, what's the point in whinging? Because I put myself in that position. No one's making me race motorbikes - I want to go and race motorbikes. The most annoying thing for me is lying in hospital and not being able to get to work. I get beside myself.
There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.
I'm a great believer in setting myself goals, and I like to think that, once I've a goal to aim for, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.
I like talking but on my terms. I don't like people talking to me, but I like talking to people.
I get home from work at six or seven. When I'm busy, I set my alarm for three, get out of bed at quarter past three. I have a cup of tea and read a magazine and take the dogs for a walk up the lane. Go through my text messages and reply to anything that needs it, then get my biking gear on ready to cycle to work.
I've had sideburns since I was 16, but back then, a gust of wind would have blown them off.
I'm not an idiot. Everything is calculated that I do.
If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.
I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.
The TT taxes your mind.
I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.
I can't stop biting off more than I can chew.
I don't go to racers' funerals.
They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.
Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.
