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I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.

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.

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.

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

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.