After PyeongChang and after the tours, I was searching for different fulfillment. And then when my fiancee walked into my life, it became clear the direction I wanted to head.
We'd love to have a perfect scoresheet at the Olympic Games, but at the same time we always find we skate well when we think about our feeling and our performance, and just being connected to each other.
I kind of thought like many skaters, 'aw, I'm not going to coach, I've already spent my 22 years in the rink.'
That's what we love to do and I think our skating's at it's best when we do that: when we draw people in and hopefully make them feel something.
I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has been my north star.
Every time I turn on the Olympics there is somebody that I know and have had intense conversations with, and that's cool.
As Canadians, we were born on the ice. We think we're the best in the world.
I think maybe the reason we've lasted so long is we respect each other as individuals and, you know, we love each other.
One of the benefits of training in America is that we can go out and there isn't that hype.
For me, it's about being true to myself and being true to our goals and not being afraid to declare what you want.
What our generation hopefully is doing is not believing in that so-called bad luck that Canada has with figure skating at the Olympics.
It's an interesting partnership that we have, friendship, whatever you want to call it. We don't even know what to call it. But we know that it's special and we're celebrating that.
We're not coming back unless it's to become Olympic champions again.
Anybody that Tessa and I end up with in our personal lives would have to understand how much we love skating and how much we love being together on the ice. If they didn't understand that, then we wouldn't be with them.
We came back. We didn't have to. It was for us. And I think there is power to that. We're doing this because we love figure skating, because we love ice dancing with each other. It's a crazy thing to say, but that's why.
We have nothing but fond memories from Sochi.
We build programs with points in mind.
We feel like we're the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.
I don't think it would be fair for Tessa to do 'Dancing With The Stars.'
You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.
People can be a little bit catty.
We're a team that likes to win, and we expect to win every time we go out.
We have the biggest title in the sport and we wanted to make sure that we pushed ourselves and experimented with the sport and I think we've done that.
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
Now we understand that experience counts for a lot. Tessa and I have been together for a very long time, we've been in a lot of situations and we know how to handle them.
You can't just measure yourself solely on winning that medal. It has to be on the everyday experience.
We're proud of the body of work we've been able to do and the commitment to our careers and our sport.
We'll know when our skating career is over by how we've progressed over the years and if we think we've got to a place where we couldn't do any better - then it would be time to retire.
I took some time, got out of the limelight a bit, and started going back into the rinks to just help out.