It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

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

Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually find kind of appalling. You know, "I'm clever, I can do something, and you don't know what it is." And that instills in the audience the idea that, "Yes, I do. You're not that clever."

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

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

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.