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

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.

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

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

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.