The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham." Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.