Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

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

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

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

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

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.