Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
— David Copperfield
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
We all possess the need to dream.
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.
The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
But Vegas is really my first home.
No, I think marriage is a great thing.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
Magic is my paint.
If I was gay, why would I hide it?
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
Marriage is like a formality for me.
Never stop listening to your audience.
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
Magic really helped me.
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.
I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
