Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

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