“We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we’re constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we’re unaware of it.”

I’ve studied people with uncanny abilities – card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here’s the thing: These weren’t innate skills – they were acquired.

There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.

Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain’s bossy left hemisphere is muted.

Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that’s inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade,

The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.

Whenever I’m onstage, I try my best not to think that I’m performing. It’s simply another part of my day.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

After all, I’m religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

More than anything I love being on stage and performing

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.

Basically you’re performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi.