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.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

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

There was another guy suggested. He was a tall and dark-haired and Jewy, and I said, "No, he's too close to me." It ended up being Jerry Seinfeld.

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.