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

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.

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

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

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

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

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.