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I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

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

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

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.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.