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The older I get the more knowledge I have and I find it easier to say sorry if I'm wrong. Maybe someday I'll get maturity.

[on being awarded Knighthood] This is a very proud moment for me. This has to mean more, it's more important than my first win or winning a world championship or my victory as a team owner. I was very proud of world championships and my career and all that happened in it and this honor is perhaps a reflection of that. But I am also proud of my work on driver safety, for the Scottish Dyslexia Trust, the Springfield Boys Club in the East End and my role as President of the British Racing Driver's Club.

[on Ken Tyrrell] Ken was and still is a big part of my life and I would like to thank him. But I would also like to thank all the mechanics of all the teams I drove for. Without them I would not have won 27 races or three world titles and without that I would not have been able to set-up a team with my son Paul which also became an important part of my life.

[on driver safety] When I was racing the safety record was horrendous. Driver safety became a big part of my life and contributing to the improvements in safety has been 'very rewarding.'

[on revisiting 'Weekend of a Champion' in 2013] When I saw the film again it was like stepping back in history and I think this is one of the attractive things about the film, and the appeal that's causing people to like it, certainly in Europe, is the fact that safety was totally different in those days. Roman [Polanski] did a lot of this filming himself. I mean he was working the cameras in a great many parts of the movie, and you can see the cars passing the pits as they were. There was no barrier in front for example, and there's hundreds of gallons of high-octane fuel and hundreds of people standing there without any protection. Whereas today, because of what we've done in safety, that would never be allowed to happen.

When you've got dyslexia and you find something you're good at, you put more into it than anyone else; you can't think the way of the clever folk, so you're always thinking out of the box.