I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.