"I'm going to take in tonight. It's a very strong competition. I'm going to take it one day at a time and do the same thing as I did tonight (in the free skate)."

"It's kind of interesting, because usually she's always there. She never withdraws. But you never know if your body is going to be there tomorrow."

"I really enjoyed the performance tonight, and I've had a whole week of unknowns, being in bed with the flu. Ice is slippery, and anything can happen to anybody. I have seen that at numerous events. I am going to have fun out there and trust my training and not worry. I have figured out that worry doesn't help."

"We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories."

"I never had trouble saying what I have to say."

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

"I leave before being left. I decide."

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

"Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face"

"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive"

"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

"You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things."

"My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going."

"I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that."

"It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who’s one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who’s one of my homies, and I don’t look at Mac different because he’s white. He’s my homie."

"I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses."

"Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life."

"I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am."

"Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it."

"There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky."

"I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own."

"I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives."

"I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color."