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" I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. "

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" I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself. "

" When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow. "

" My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer. "

" I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. "

" When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible. "

" If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it. "

" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "

" I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life. "

" There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time. "

" It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label. "

" Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. "

" I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. "

" I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail. "

" Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. "

" Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. "

" You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. "

" I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. "

" This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way. "

" To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules. "

" I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. "

" Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing. "

" Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. "

" If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk. "

" It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years. "

" Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers. "

" My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. "

" I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. "

" When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. "

" As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. "