When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

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

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.