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.

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

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

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.