I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

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

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

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