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 used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

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

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.

Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.