If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

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

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

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.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.