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 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.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

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

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

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

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