When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

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