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

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

I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

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.