I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

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

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

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.

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

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