Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

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.