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When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.

It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.