I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you.

This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was.

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

Don't clutter your life with things that bring you down. Focus on the things that life you up.

There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.