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.

Memories just get richer with time.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.