I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.

I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.

In the second part of my life, away from cycling, I hope I will be able to benefit fully from my family and children in the same way that cycling gave me such joy.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

What podcasts can do in order to liven up the talk show area of TV is bring new personalities and unique worldviews into the fray in a way that's not going to be filtered through the whole Q-rating thing. I think there's a whole new layer of doing things that TV is behind the Internet in figuring out.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating good for thinking.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

I like doing the editorial stuff because it's nice to do something that's more me. But modeling for brands and the things to make money... I guess I don't really like being the mannequin. It's a very strange concept.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Of course eccentrics are happy, they're loony toons. They don't know they aren't supposed to be anything but joyous.

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

As long as youre being a copycat you will never be the best copycat.