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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

I really like figure skating.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

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.