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'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.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

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

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

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.