In the skating world, we were the celebrities, but the show isn't like that. The show is about the [Hollywood] celebrities and their struggle to give up their comfort zones and put it all on the line.

I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for a living what you did as a kid. You make in a year what I made in my life and, if you let it go to your head I'll kick you with my cowboy boots on.

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

[Those hoping that a national voter registry might bring some order to the chaos might have to wait some time.] I think sometime we will have a real-time federal registry, ... I hope I live long enough to see it.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.