For any young rider even competing in the San Remo is one of the biggest things - but to win it is beyond emotion. You can't put it into words.

I'm not getting bored with cycling or winning - I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.

It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.

I love track racing and I'm proud to be a British cyclist and proud to pull on the jersey to represent my country.

I started getting into decent food after I got a house in Tuscany, near the British cycling academy's training base. For a cyclist, the area is incredible, with the flats of the basin of Florence, the heights of the Apennines and the small climbs around Chianti.

A lot of people in the Isle of Man support me and it makes it all worthwhile when people are interested in what you're doing. I dunno if the word 'famous' is appropriate, but I'm quite well known on the Isle of Man.

One thing I do get aggravated by is people shouting with frustration if they get pushed and shoved in sprints. I don't push and shove anyone, but I don't care if somebody does it to me.

Between 20km and 10km to go, you want the whole team at the front. You don't necessarily want to take control, and the speed will be dictated by how many surges you get from the other teams. You don't want to go so fast they can't come, but you want to be just ahead so you're in control.

The beautiful thing about cycling is that it is so accessible and that pleased me when I was younger because you felt like you could almost touch the athletes.

The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.

I don't know why, but despite winning how many world championships, how many Tour stages, and being 31 years old, some people still thought I had to prove myself, you know. So I had to do the Track Worlds to try to prove myself.

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

I use an inhaler myself and have done since I was 15.

Second doesn't mean anything in cycling.

I'm going to do the Commonwealth Games for no other reason than national pride. It's something special getting to ride for the Isle of Man.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

If you're on the top for your sport or 10 years it's going to seem like you've had more knock-backs than someone who has been at the top for three years.

Yorkshire is a hard place to ride a bike.

I'm a fan of motorsport and a fan of McLaren and I was lucky to work with the company on a small scale across my career but to be able to race now with that brand on my jersey, it's pretty special. I still have to rein in my fanboy attitude sometimes.

What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

The thing with depression is you don't realise you have it and even when you do you don't want to realise you have it.

I need to be on a bike, mentally as much as physically.

I'd love to have my achievements recognised and for people to know enough about cycling to understand what my achievements mean.