I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.

Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.