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Pain Can Be A Beautiful Thing.

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Well, I Had An Immense Respect For Cirque Du Soleil When I First Say Them In The '80s On A Television Show And Just Thought, You Know, This Group Is Really Reinventing The Circus, As You Know. Because There Wasn't Three Rings. There Were No Animals.

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Life Is But A Series Of Memories You Make.

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I Wasn't A Smart Kid And I Still Don't Think I'm Too Smart When It Comes To Book Smart, But I Was Very Good With What I Knew And With My Craft And I Think That Was My Calling In Life. But Even Today I Never Went To College.

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No One Has The Ability, That I'm Aware Of, To Do Anything Supernatural, Psychic, Talk To The Dead.

I've Never Formally Trained For Pain Management, But I Have A Good Understanding Of How To Conquer It. I Just Analyze The Pain, Feel It In The Moment, And Then Mentally Become Numb To It.

You Can't Please Everyone And Trying To Do So Is The Kiss Of Death.

I'm Just A Human Being That Is In Touch With Myself. And I'm Honest With Myself. And I Really, At The End Of The Day, Don't Care What People Say. I Never Cared About What People Say.

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Well I Think Everything Up To This Point That I've Been Exposed To In My Life Has Had An Influence On Me In Some Way, Shape, Or Form Even If I'm Not Conscious Of It. So I Definitely Think That My Studies In Wu-shu, Kung-fu, Karate, Kenpo, Taikwando, All Of That Stuff Certainly Has An Affect. I Don't Think I Follow Any Discipline Traditionally.

You Can't Please Everyone, And Trying To Is The Kiss Of Death. I Don't Care About Wayne Newton's Demographics. When I Do, I'll Know That It's Time To Quit.

I Came Up With The Term 'mindfreak' Because I Didn't Like The Word 'magician.' I Felt Like I Wanted To Coin A Term That Would Be Basically The Reaction To My Art. It Would Be A Mindfreak And So That's Why I Came Up With That. But, Many People Say I'm Really A Student Of Humanity And Psychology.

I Like To Say Magic Is The World's Second Oldest Profession, A Mystical And Often Awe-inspiring Spectacle That, Throughout The Ages, Has Blended Superstition, Trickery And Religion.

You Can't Please Everyone, And Trying To Is The Kiss Of Death. I Don't Care About Wayne Newton's Demographics. When I Do, I'll Know That It's Time To Quit.

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I'm Actually Tougher On Myself As I Get Older. It's A Vicious Cycle. The Things That Are Important In Life Are The Things That You Can't Buy In Life: Love, Health And Happiness. I Say That, And I Believe That, And I Try To Live That.

A Lot Of The Demonstrations That I Do, When I Get Inside Peoples Minds, Is Understanding Human Behavior And Understanding How People Think And Getting Their Patterns Down So I Know How To Create The Illusion That I Get Inside Their Brain.

I Wish What I Do Was All Real. Some Of It's Real, Some Of It's An Illusion And I Try To Blur The Line Between Both, But Unfortunately I've Got To Be Honest With You. Taking A $1 Bill And Turning It Into A $100 - Unfortunately It's Not Real.

I Had An Amazing Childhood, Lots Of Love. But My Dad Worked His Tail Off, Getting Up At 4 In The Morning And Going Off At 5, 6 O'clock, Yet He Always Had Time To Spend With His Kids And His Wife.

Pain Is A Beautiful Thing. When You Feel Pain, You Know You're Alive.

I Think If You Would Have Cut Houdini With A Knife, Blood Wouldn't Come Out, Pr Would.

I've Been A Live Performer Longer Than I've Been A Television Performer. For Me, Live Is Where It's At.

Oprah Is Signed On To Help, And A Lot Of Celebrity Friends Have Agreed To Help Me Raise Money For Make-a-wish. We Want To Make The World A Better Place For Innocent Children. I Cried My Heart Out When My Father Died From Cancer. I Wish I Was Smarter, Wiser Like A Doctor, To Save These Children From Dying.

I Think We Can Really Use Magic In A Way Never Attempted Before To Inspire These Children, Help Rally Their Self-confidence And Even Help Them Develop Social Skills. This Is A National Effort, Not Just Here In Las Vegas. I Know We Can Give Them A True Passion.

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I Love Develop As An Artist, To Push My Envelope, To Grow, To Make Mistakes, To Learn From Them And To Try And Be The Very Best That I Can Be While I'm On This Earth.

I've Never, Ever Had Any Therapy. Some Might Say I Need It, But I've Never Seen A Shrink Or A Psychologist Or Anything Like That.

I Have Mentally Overcome Situations Most Of You Would Be Terrified To Ever Attempt: Heights, Fire, Needles, Spiders, Snakes, Angry Monkeys, Being Shot, Being Hit By A Car, Going Blind - You Name It, I Have Been In A Situation Where I Have Had To Mentally Overcome My Inherent Fears To Do My Job.

I Would Love To Be Fooled. The Innocence Of Child For The First Time, Seeing Something And Being In Wonder Is Something That I Long For Because I'm Tainted.

The Days Of Television As We Knew It Growing Up Are Over. You Have A Bigger, Wider World Audience On The Internet, Larger Than Any American Television Series. People Don't Watch Television In The Same Context As Before. Nowadays They Watch Their Television On The Internet At Their Convenience. That's The Whole Wave, And It's Now - Not The Future.

Magic Speaks To The Child In All Of Us. No Matter How Sophisticated We Become, There's Still A Part Of Us Who Wants To Believe In An Alternative Reality, Where We Can Defy The Laws Of Nature.

I Love Develop As An Artist, To Push My Envelope, To Grow, To Make Mistakes, To Learn From Them And To Try And Be The Very Best That I Can Be While I'm On This Earth.

I Want To Ride My Motorcycle Up The Side Of The Luxor To The Light And Vanish.

If People Are Fans Of 'mindfreak,' They Are Going To Be So Excited With 'believe.' They Are Actually Going To See Those Illusions That People Think Can Only Happen With Trick Photography.

You Can't Please Everyone And Trying To Do So Is The Kiss Of Death.

I Had An Amazing Childhood, Lots Of Love. But My Dad Worked His Tail Off, Getting Up At 4 In The Morning And Going Off At 5, 6 O'clock, Yet He Always Had Time To Spend With His Kids And His Wife.

To Me, It's Never About The Trick. I Don't Care About How Something Works. I Care About How People Feel When They Watch It. You Know, That - That Connection - That Emotional Connection Is True Magic.

I Have Real Tv Studios. If I Have An Idea, I Can Go Shoot It. I Can Experiment. If I Choose To Air It Or Not, It's At My Discretion. I Don't Have To Do It To Somebody Else's Time Frame.

We Are Thrilled To Work With Fun And Share The Same Sentiment That We Want Do Some Really Exciting And Innovative Things For The Magic Community.

Sometimes My Art Is Just An Illusion - Or Is It?

I Put My Life In Danger Every Time I Do Some Of These Demonstrations, Whether It's In The Audience Hanging Upside Down Or On The Stage. We Now Have A Lot Of Dangerous Stunts Where Anything Can Go Wrong. In Fact, I Have Fallen Two Stories And Landed On The Stage, So I Am Well Aware Of The Dangers.

It's So Funny Looking Back, But My So-called Overnight Success Actually Took 15 Years. I Remember When I Didn't Have Any Money, And My Only Car Was Mom's Hyundai.

Really Believe In Yourself, And That No Matter What Anyone Says To You, If You Really Have A Dream And The Passion - Go For It! If You're Willing To Go Through The Rigors To Get It, It Will Happen. It May Not Happen In Your Timeframe, But It Will Happen. I'm Living Proof Of That. I Was Once On The Other End Of The Spectrum, And Now I'm Living My Dream. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger.

I've Been A Live Performer Longer Than I've Been A Television Performer. For Me, Live Is Where It's At.

I Have Real Tv Studios. If I Have An Idea, I Can Go Shoot It. I Can Experiment. If I Choose To Air It Or Not, It's At My Discretion. I Don't Have To Do It To Somebody Else's Time Frame.

And You Know, I'm So Used To Going 100 Miles An Hour In Every Direction And Sleeping You Know, Two, Three Hours A Night, And That's The Way I Live.

If People Are Fans Of 'mindfreak,' They Are Going To Be So Excited With 'believe.' They Are Actually Going To See Those Illusions That People Think Can Only Happen With Trick Photography.

Well I Have You Know, Several Cd's Out; One Of My Best Friends Is Sully Erna From Godsmack - He Is Godsmack, And We're Going To Be Working On An Album Together.

I'm A Workaholic. I Work And Work And Work.

I Am A Street Performer As Much As I Am A Stage Performer. Yes, I Have A Television Show, But Every Trick, Every 'mindfreak' You See, I Can Do Live.

No One Has The Ability, That I'm Aware Of, To Do Anything Supernatural, Psychic, Talk To The Dead.

When You Think Like A Child Your Imagination Is Free And Anything Is Possible.

The Days Of Television As We Knew It Growing Up Are Over. You Have A Bigger, Wider World Audience On The Internet, Larger Than Any American Television Series. People Don't Watch Television In The Same Context As Before. Nowadays They Watch Their Television On The Internet At Their Convenience. That's The Whole Wave, And It's Now - Not The Future.

I Wasn't A Smart Kid And I Still Don't Think I'm Too Smart When It Comes To Book Smart, But I Was Very Good With What I Knew And With My Craft And I Think That Was My Calling In Life. But Even Today I Never Went To College.

Reality Is Perspective. All You Have To Do Is Believe.

You Can Just Go To A Magic Shop Or Magic Builder And Buy What Most Magicians Do, But That's Not What I'm About. With 'mindfreak' On Television And 'believe' Live, I Want To Bring Things That People Have Never Seen Before. That Process Is Very Difficult. It's Very Challenging, And You Never Know How Long It's Going To Take - Months Or Years.

I Think We Can Really Use Magic In A Way Never Attempted Before To Inspire These Children, Help Rally Their Self-confidence And Even Help Them Develop Social Skills. This Is A National Effort, Not Just Here In Las Vegas. I Know We Can Give Them A True Passion.

Self Confidence

I Am The Mindfreak, There's No Reality! Just This World Of Illusion That Keeps On Haunting Me.

Well, I Had An Immense Respect For Cirque Du Soleil When I First Say Them In The '80s On A Television Show And Just Thought, You Know, This Group Is Really Reinventing The Circus, As You Know. Because There Wasn't Three Rings. There Were No Animals.

When You Think Like A Child Your Imagination Is Free And Anything Is Possible.

Pain Is A Beautiful Thing. When You Feel Pain, You Know You're Alive.

The First Time I Thought About Attempting A Body Suspension Was After Watching A Documentary On Rites-of-passage Ceremonies From Other Cultures. I Was Completely Intrigued By What These People Put Their Bodies Through.

Really Believe In Yourself, And That No Matter What Anyone Says To You, If You Really Have A Dream And The Passion - Go For It! If You're Willing To Go Through The Rigors To Get It, It Will Happen. It May Not Happen In Your Timeframe, But It Will Happen. I'm Living Proof Of That. I Was Once On The Other End Of The Spectrum, And Now I'm Living My Dream. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger.

I'm Able To Do My Television Projects And Movie Projects That I Really Want To Explore. For Me, It's Not About The Money, It's Not About The Fame. I Love Creating.

Indeed, Most Magicians Catch The Bug As Kids. My First Audience Was My Family In Long Island. My First 'assistant' Was My Mother, Whom I Levitated On A Broom In Our Living Room.

I'm Actually Tougher On Myself As I Get Older. It's A Vicious Cycle. The Things That Are Important In Life Are The Things That You Can't Buy In Life: Love, Health And Happiness. I Say That, And I Believe That, And I Try To Live That.

Pain Can Be A Beautiful Thing.

Beautiful Things

I Am The Mindfreak, There's No Reality! Just This World Of Illusion That Keeps On Haunting Me.

I'm Just A Human Being That Is In Touch With Myself. And I'm Honest With Myself. And I Really, At The End Of The Day, Don't Care What People Say. I Never Cared About What People Say.

The End Of The Day

I Am A Very Emotional Person.

Emotional Person

I Came Up With The Term 'mindfreak' Because I Didn't Like The Word 'magician.' I Felt Like I Wanted To Coin A Term That Would Be Basically The Reaction To My Art. It Would Be A Mindfreak And So That's Why I Came Up With That. But, Many People Say I'm Really A Student Of Humanity And Psychology.

Well To Be Perfectly Frank With You I Never Created Art Or Have Done Demonstrations For Anyone Before Myself Artistically. I Always Do It To Try To Push My Own Envelope To Be The Best I Can Be.

Well I Think Everything Up To This Point That I've Been Exposed To In My Life Has Had An Influence On Me In Some Way, Shape, Or Form Even If I'm Not Conscious Of It. So I Definitely Think That My Studies In Wu-shu, Kung-fu, Karate, Kenpo, Taikwando, All Of That Stuff Certainly Has An Affect. I Don't Think I Follow Any Discipline Traditionally.

If We All Looked Out For Each Other A Little Bit More, I Think We Wouldn't Have A Lot Of The Crisis That We Have In Today's Society.

It's So Funny Looking Back, But My So-called Overnight Success Actually Took 15 Years. I Remember When I Didn't Have Any Money, And My Only Car Was Mom's Hyundai.

I Want To Ride My Motorcycle Up The Side Of The Luxor To The Light And Vanish.

I Am A Street Performer As Much As I Am A Stage Performer. Yes, I Have A Television Show, But Every Trick, Every 'mindfreak' You See, I Can Do Live.

The American Public Is Who I'm Interested In. Ultimately, If They Think I'm Good And They Think I'm Entertaining That's All That Matters.

If We All Looked Out For Each Other A Little Bit More, I Think We Wouldn't Have A Lot Of The Crisis That We Have In Today's Society.

I Think That The Problem Is That People Fear So Many Things And They Don't Live Life To Its Fullest. And For Me As An Artist, If God Should Want Me To Come This Wednesday To The End Of My Life, So Be It.

When The Mind, Body, And Spirit Work Together, I Believe Anything Is Possible.

I Have Mentally Overcome Situations Most Of You Would Be Terrified To Ever Attempt: Heights, Fire, Needles, Spiders, Snakes, Angry Monkeys, Being Shot, Being Hit By A Car, Going Blind - You Name It, I Have Been In A Situation Where I Have Had To Mentally Overcome My Inherent Fears To Do My Job.

I Would Love To Be Fooled. The Innocence Of Child For The First Time, Seeing Something And Being In Wonder Is Something That I Long For Because I'm Tainted.

I Used To Think That If I Had Success I Would Have Freedom. But I Have Less Freedom Now Than I've Ever Had. And What Gives Me Satisfaction Is Not The Jewelry And Not The Cars. What Gives Me Satisfaction Is Doing Things For Others, Like Children.

Indeed, Most Magicians Catch The Bug As Kids. My First Audience Was My Family In Long Island. My First 'assistant' Was My Mother, Whom I Levitated On A Broom In Our Living Room.

When The Mind, Body, And Spirit Work Together, I Believe Anything Is Possible.

We Are Thrilled To Work With Fun And Share The Same Sentiment That We Want Do Some Really Exciting And Innovative Things For The Magic Community.

Everything That I Spent My Entire Life Dedicated To, Which Is This Art Of Mentalism, Of Magic... I Don't See It And Feel It And Experience It Like I First Did When I Was Getting Involved In This Art. I Try To Look At It As A Spectator But Unless I Get Amnesia I Still Can't Overlook That. I Can Appreciate The Performance But I Would Love To Be Fooled.

To Me, It's Never About The Trick. I Don't Care About How Something Works. I Care About How People Feel When They Watch It. You Know, That - That Connection - That Emotional Connection Is True Magic.

I Have My Own Foundation, Which I Just Started, Called Believe Anything Is Possible, Which Is Going To Be An Organization To Help The Underprivileged.

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