When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!"

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.