I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget.
I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.
People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.
I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.