It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'