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

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Walking is pretty easy. You just have to be confident, like not caring. And honestly, people think about their walk too much, so they try to do something really interesting, but the designers hate it.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life.

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.

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

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.