Having a life outside of the rink has given me a whole new sense of what this all means. It's who I am, but at the end of the day, I'm not going to die if I lose to someone or if I miss a podium by 0.1 points. It doesn't matter so much. All I really want is to enjoy what I do.
--International Figure Skating magazine, "He's Back!" by Elina Paasonen, December 2012