There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.