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

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.

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 really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

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.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.