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

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

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 do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

My only fear is the unknown.

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