I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.

All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

[ 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."

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.