My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when … you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?