I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

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

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

There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.

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.

Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.