What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

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

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.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

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

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