[What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?]

Working hard to become the man and artist I want to be and doing it my way.
--blogs.phillymag.com, "15 Questions for U.S. Figure Skating Champ Johnny Weir" by Josh Middleton, May 16, 2013

[Who is your hero, and why?]

My hero may be cliché, but it’s my mama. She raised me with the strength to be me all while forging the path herself.
--blogs.phillymag.com, "15 Questions for U.S. Figure Skating Champ Johnny Weir" by Josh Middleton, May 16, 2013

[What’s your absolute favorite move to do on the ice?]

Spinning or standing in front of thousands in a sparkly costume and shaking my butt.
--blogs.phillymag.com, "15 Questions for U.S. Figure Skating Champ Johnny Weir" by Josh Middleton, May 16, 2013

Blogger's note: When Johnny was younger, he didn't think of himself as the butt-shaking type.

I wish we could all respect our fellow man and his life enough to take some interest in his truth before creating our own miniseries.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Gossip Folks" May 16, 2013

I’ve been on the active and receiving ends of meeting people who make you nervous and say stupid things just because they can’t believe their luck to be actually meeting someone they look up to. Things like, “I’ll teach your baby to skate” or “I loved ‘Gigli’” come flying out of your mouth without a moment’s notice. Having said this, sometimes, like drunken honesty, nervous honesty comes into play.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Gossip Folks?" May 16, 2013

If you dress like a prostitute, there will probably be gossip about you being a prostitute. If you look like me, then there is probably gossip about sexual reassignment surgery.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Gossip Folks" May 16, 2013

I believe that gossip can change the world and create a spark that sets the world on fire with knowledge and renaissance, but I hope it’s to better our race, not destroy it.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Gossip Folks" May 16, 2013

[I feel gayest when …]

I’m having sex.
--blogs.phillymag.com, "15 Questions for U.S. Figure Skating Champ Johnny Weir" by Josh Middleton, May 16, 2013

[When are you happiest?]

When I’m surrounded by people I love and we celebrate nothing more than being alive.
--blogs.phillymag.com, "15 Questions for U.S. Figure Skating Champ Johnny Weir" by Josh Middleton, May 16, 2013

I like to have a furry bed. I like to get cozy even in the summertime. The air conditioning gets cold and I like to snuggle.
--nymag.com, the Cut, "Q&A: Johnny Weir on His Fabulous Clothing Collection, Fur, and Upcoming Clothing Line" by Amy Odell, June 29, 2010

I want to go back to the hotel that night and just die from exhaustion because I've skated that hard and I performed that hard for the audience,
 --GoErie.com, "2-time Olympian Weir leads Ice Dreams in Jamestown, N.Y." by Dave Richards, May 9, 2013 
(on his Jamestown, N.Y. Ice Dreams performance)

I wasn't coming back to keep people talking about me. I have enough people talking about me in many other industries, I don't need to pretend I'm going to skate.
--usatoday.com, "Johnny Weir's next role: Hidden dragon" by Kelly Whiteside, February 7, 2013
(on his motives behind his return to competition)

If my theory is true, I could be an overcooked girl, while my husband is an undercooked man.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Who Am I?" May 9, 2013 

[T]here are many theories as to why people are the way they are. Still, I ask, why doesn’t science have an answer yet?

And why do I have nipples?
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Who Am I?" May 9, 2013

Here it is, on full display, the reason I think I am the way I am:

If I started out as a girl in Patti Weir’s belly, and slowly cooked my way into being a boy, but due to all the country air my mom took in or the fall harvest of 1983 when I was conceived, I didn’t quite make it over to being a straight man. Instead of finishing the cycle, I got stuck in a net in the middle of where the sexes overlap and happily floated out the remainder of my time in limbo. While I was being created, perhaps I even stayed a girl until the last possible minute until God stepped in a changed my body to that of a boy with personality traits and some features like a girl. You’d think it would make me some weird, powerful, spirit animal having been caught in the middle, but it has made me more confused throughout my life to not understand why certain things simply are.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: "Who Am I?" May 9, 2013