I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

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

I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

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.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.