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.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

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

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

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.

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