Italy is best for holidays.

Wilbur Smith's novels make terrific holiday reading.

Halloween was definitely the biggest holiday when I was a kid. We started making our Halloween costumes in August. Me and my mom. My mom was a single mom; it was just her and I.

One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

Everyone goes on holiday in Britain. Even Hell's Angels.

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew... we're a very small group. We're very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together.

I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.

Since I was a little girl, my family has taken a holiday to Cornwall every spring half-term.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.

I am a Christmas nerd. Christmas is my favorite holiday.

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.

Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it's all about saying thank you; it's being thankful.

I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.