As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

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

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

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.

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.

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

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