You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.

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

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.