Last season my mind was finished before I even started competing. I wanted to try and branch out, because I can’t be a porcelain doll. That’s a self-description of how I sometimes skate. When I watch a video or see my program photos, I look like I have not exactly a blank expression, and not quite an expression of purity, but something close to that. My appearance on the ice looks, to me, like a porcelain veneer. Yet, it’s me and it’s not fake. Last season we tried the masculine look, the long crazy hair, didn’t shave, did the moves, but it wasn’t me. I was happy I tried but yes, any event I entered last year was not a good one.
--ifsmagazine.com, "National Velvet" by Kathleen Bangs, January 7, 2008