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.

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.

The most important thing is presentation.

When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.