I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

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

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

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.

I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.

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