I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

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!

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.

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