If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.