I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, "Oh, that was good." The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.

I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.

When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.