I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

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

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

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.