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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.