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.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

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.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

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

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.