All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

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.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.