I do all that TV stuff, and it's not real work.

I don't see coming down to London and talking to people and making TV shows as real work. The only reason I do it is because they keep coming up with decent ideas.

It's bred in me that I only see real work as getting stuck in and getting your hands dirty.

Some riders believe in all the hype at the TT; have a successful week, give up work then go and buy motorhomes and cars. I like to get back to normal afterwards and go to work.

My idea of splashing out would be buying a new spanner. I've got about 300 - you can't have too many in my opinion.

I'm the luckiest man alive.

In my normal life, I am a private person doing a proper job.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

I race pushbikes more than I race motorbikes, but it's not the same.

I know what a pound is, and I earn my £12 an hour, and that's great.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.

I like films, but I can't sit still for very long.

As far as I am concerned, the Ulster Grand Prix is my favourite race.

I like the Mid Antrim circuit, and if anyone were to ask me to show them a typical Irish road surface, I would take them to the Mid Antrim. It is awesome.

I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.

I've got my own TV stuff on the go, and it's all a bit oddball - it's one-offs, and I can do what, when, and how I want it, really. I don't have any scripts or people telling me to do stuff twice.

I'm not into these mollycoddled sorts of things; I like a bit of danger. I haven't got a death wish, but it makes things exciting, doesn't it?

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I'm not an ungrateful person.

I should be paid to be a spokesman for Ford Transit.

When you dead, you dead.

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.

When I was little, I would open up lawnmowers and try to make them go faster. I wasn't strong enough to do some things, so I'd wait for my dad to get home from work to help me. He was great, but he never really encouraged me, and I'll be the same if I have kids: I'll leave them to do their own thing.

I'm fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.

I'm big into the Stone Roses.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

I don't want to be famous.

I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.

Short-circuit racing is full of health and safety, but the reason I ride a motorbike is because of the danger, and there is no place more dangerous than the TT.

I like pushing myself.

Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.