I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

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.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

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.

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

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.