Quotes from Mark Webber

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.

I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

I love putting things together. I love putting together a team and making stuff with people. It's great, that's what's cool about movies it's such a collaborative effort.

For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.