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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

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.

When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.

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

I really like figure skating.

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

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.

Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.