At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

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.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.