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

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

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.

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

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.