My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

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

But Vegas is really my first home.

For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, "I want to tell stories like that. I want to move people like that. But I'm good at magic, so what am I going to do?" So I started using magic for the right reasons - to get the girl.

Performing my show is something I constantly think about.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.