When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.