We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.