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I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

I think I'm a big kid at heart, so I get very excited around the holidays.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

The holidays are a way to get away from the pain of the year, creating something people can laugh at. That's a gift.