Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.
My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?