I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

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.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?