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

The most important thing is presentation.

I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.

I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.

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