I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

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.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

I was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can 'vanish' the silk this way." The opening was a black stage while the "Magic to Do" song started playing. All you saw were hands, lit by Jules Fisher, and then Ben Vereen would appear beyond the hands, and at the end of the scene he would vanish a silk. The spotlight would hit a red spot on the floor where you'd see the silk on the floor. He'd pull the silk out of the floor and it became the entire set coming out of the floor.