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

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.

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

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

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

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.