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

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.

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

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

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.