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I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

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.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.