After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.