When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!"

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.