I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive