As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
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.
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him.
I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
