Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are though because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

What we think determines what happens to us so if we want to change our lives we need to stretch our minds.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But let's ride in a group. Let's be independent together.'

But once you have satisfied your material needs which I think every wealth creator should - the house the car the plane the boat - what comes next?

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine but I don't fish I don't hunt I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001 and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

When they searched my car they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3 000 miles across country?

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

Yeah well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track just crush it. So if you like fast cars you'll love this car. And then oh by the way it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

I'm ashamed to say this but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset and some guy just walked straight up to me and he had some bling on and whatever and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was 'Who are you? I don't know you and I don't care about how good your car is.'

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere I'd just crawl under a rock and you know have someone run over the rock with a car or something.

I think the true test of a pop song for me and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this is you take your demo you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica and that's the Hollywood car test.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today if you ask people what they know they say 'I know how to hire someone.'

Well you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.