 He didn't want to be that. He knew how to hypnotize people, but he didn't want to hypnotize people. He wanted to bring them out of the hypnotic state that they were in, that they didn't even know they were in. You think the person on the stage knows when they're hypnotized? No! They're completely oblivious to being hypnotized, or when they've been hypnotized, that they are hypnotized. And he recognized that.