It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

If you can't beat them. Join them