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How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy....

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the...

My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

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

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing...

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

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

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 have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of...

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started...

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

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

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

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

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

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

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.

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

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