'I get up about 10am, have breakfast then head to the beach for a few hours. I have lived in Ibiza for the past
10 years and the beach is about 500 metres from my apartment. After the beach, I'll go home and spend the afternoon watching television to relax. I skip lunch and have dinner around 7pm.
I work the hotels in Ibiza for six months of the year. I perform at a different hotel every night for two weeks so the holidaymakers don't see the same show twice. I'll leave home about 8.30pm; the whole island is about 30km across so it only takes about half an hour to get to any hotel. I'll arrive about 9.15pm, sit and relax, then I go on stage at 10pm and perform right through to 11.30pm without a break.
Anyone can do hypnotism. You relax the subject and once they are relaxed you can talk to their subconscious mind. Then I get them to do things they don't mind doing.
I cannot make anyone do anything against their will - it's impossible. If I hypnotise someone and tell them, 'Go to the bank, withdraw US$500 and give it to me, but forget you've done it,' they won't. But if I ask them to play an imaginary musical instrument then they don't mind because it's something we've all done in the past.
There are lots of people who can't be hypnotised. The ones who can be, want to be. They volunteer. Those who don't want to, I ask them not to come on stage as they'll fight against it and they'll be impossible. So when any hypnotist is doing a stage show, they'll ask for a number of volunteers, maybe 20 people, and out of those they need
