I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.