As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.