Anyone else ever ponder the simplicity of life married to an Amish man? Back home in Lancaster County, PA yesterday made kinda wonder how I’d look in buggy. 
--Twitter, August 5, 2018

Plaid might be the ticket. I feel like that's really hunter and really going back to my Pennsylvania roots.
--NBC, Access Hollywood, "Johnny Gets Ready," February 12, 2014
(picking out a shirt to wear to go fishing in the Black Sea with Billy Bush)

[Joan Rivers asks Johnny how he started figure skating at 12.]

I was growing up in Amish County Pennsylvania.

[Joan: Are you Amish?]

I'm not Amish.

[Joan: That must have been difficult.]

Or these lights would be way too much for me.

[Kelly Osbourne: Only candlelight for you.]

Only candlelight and butter churning.
--E! (TV channel), Fashion Police, "Fash Fabness," March 29, 2013

My dress is decidedly understated, all black for maximum skinniness as I blast across people’s TV screens from Philadelphia to Topeka, Des Moines to Orange County. Despite the understated color, I look like a streetwalker in designer leggings that give the illusion of garters. 
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: Giggle," January 3, 2013
(on his December 21, 2012 Today show performance costume)

Society right now judges everything about your life and everything about who you are. Kids are awful to each other. My message is just to be strong enough to be yourself. I don't need to fit a mold. I don't need to fit into someone else's idea of what a figure skater, or a man, or someone from Pennsylvania, someone from the country now living in the city--I don't need to fit any of those molds.
--nbcolympics.com,Vancouver 2010, athletes: Johnny Weir, "Q&A"

If I never win another medal in my career, I know that I have already done so many good things. A person from a small town in the middle of nowhere, I’ve done more than most of those kids ever get a chance to do. So I’ll never be sad. I’ll be angry if I make mistakes, but I’ll never be sad. I’m very proud of everything I’ve done and everything I will do.
--goldenskate.com, "Weir rearing to get back into 'dog and pony' show" by Tatjana Flade, October 12, 2012 

One funny thing that happened was Evan Lysacek borrowing my pants for the pro-am. I didn't want to be a total bitch and say the expected "NO!," so I let him. There are plenty of other people he could have borrowed pants from who are his size, but it made a better story wearing mine. Him wearing my pants was a hit for the media, and it's funny that he "forgot" his pants in my home state! How clever. They call me an attention whore? Please...
--myspace.com/officialjohnnyweirmyspace, blog, April 2007
(on Marshalls U.S .Figure Skating Showcase, April 6, 2007)

[Billy Bush: Are you Team Jon or are you Team Kate?]

I'm originally from Pennsylvania, and I don't like any of that Pennsylvania business going on right there...I'm team children. I would outfit all the children in some kind of Prada something.
--Access Hollywood, AH Nation, Pop Culture Quiz, March 5, 2010
(on the relationship problems of Jon and Kate Gosselin of the reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8)

What Johnny would like to do to Rick Santorum:

Kick him in the balls.

I'm sad that my state ever put him in a position of power. Anyone that compares me and my lifestyle to bestiality, it hurts my feelings.
--abcnews.go.com, "Chaz Bono Dating Show in the Works" by Sheila Marikar, March 26, 2012; comment made on GLAAD Awards red carpet, March 24, 2012

You can do anything--even when you start out in a town that has horse and buggies--and go anywhere.
--lancasteronline.com, "Olympic skater returns to Quarryville to give back" by Joan Kern, December 2, 2006
(to Quarryville Elementary School students at school assembly)

Blogger's note: Johnny attended Quarryville Elementary School as a child. He visited the school on December 1, 2006, to talk to the students and donate $1,000 for library books.

I'm a Chicago native.

[Tara Modlin: You're not a Chicago native! You're a Pennsylvania native.]

Close enough.
--Ice Dreams 2011, "Johnny Comes to visit Fireworks and talks Ice Dreams!" video, March 31, 2011

Coming from a really small town in Pennsylvania where no one really does anything except go cow tipping and just kind of hangs out, it was kind of odd, I guess, for my parents to see I was interested in something like figure skating.
--BLADES on Ice magazine, "Johnny Weir Says What's On His Mind" by Michelle Wojdyla, September - October 2005 issue

I'd still be living in Pennsylvania where I grew up and probably working a middle-management job somewhere or milking cows.
--nydailynews.com, "New-out ice skating champ Johnny Weir: 'I don't have time to have sex'" by David Yi, January 8, 2011
(on life without skating)

Caught red handed in Oxford, PA with @megcarlozzi. Guilty as charged, the charges are glamour. http://yfrog.com/kkdtmcoj
--Twitter, August 6, 2012

(T)he thing I miss most about Lancaster County is the quality of life. After 6 pm, the land is completely quiet and dark; in summer, everything is ripe and green; in winter, the snow brings gorgeous landscapes and clean winter air. I miss that.
--figureskatersonline.com/johnnyweir, Q & A With Johnny, June 2011

I didn't come from nothing, but I was kind of in the middle of nowhere. I associate it with the hobbits, where they came from, the Shire.
--Chicago Tribune, "U.S. champ Johnny Weir doesn't mind if he upsets a few federation officials" by Phillip Hersh, March 21, 2004

I'm practically part Amish, and I made it to an Olympic Games. That in itself is an achievement.
--nbcolympics.com, "Johnny Weir: In his own words," 2006 pre-Olympics interview

And I got into figure skating very late, because coming from Amish country, we had no ice rinks or any ability to train, and no history of wonderful ice queens in the area.
--2010 Seattle HRC Seattle Gala Dinner, September 25, 2010

I decided to take traditional Amish folk music for my free program because it's very beautiful music with a banjo.
--icenetwork.com, "Johnny Weir interview," video, Champs Camp, June 2008

(T)here's a delicacy made by the Amish...we call them...in my part of Amishville...whoopie pies...I'm planning to have two covering the naughty bits on the top and then two covering the naughty bits on the bottom.
--icenetwork.com, "Johnny Weir interview," video, Champs Camp, June 2008

Blogger's note: Whoopie pies are made with two small circular chocolate cakes held together by a cream filling.