I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.