If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

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 believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

It's a wonderful life and I love it.

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

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