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

You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."