At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.

I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

If you fall, you fall, " Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.