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.

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

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

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.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

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