I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

I like to keep my wheels on the ground.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.