If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Water is my drink.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

I became a beach bum.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.