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.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all over the world. He seemed to speak to people at their very core and achieved the impossible. He reached people on a deep emotional level. And that is what any great artist or showman dreams of doing. That is why Michael Jackson was so special to me.

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.