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

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

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.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

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

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

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.