Edmund Hillary

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.