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

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.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

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

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.

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

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.