I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

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