For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

But Vegas is really my first home.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

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