I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

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

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

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.