My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.