Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

Skating is now retro and hip.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

I stood there on the corner of the street, I held on to your hand, I looked into your eyes, And all you responded with was, "move on

Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.