[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day.

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

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

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.