I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

Homophobia is gay.

We were given a lemon and we made lemonade. [These businesses] are part and parcel of the gay life in this whole metropolitan area.

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years old to 18 to make extra money to go to Europe, which I made half of and my parents gave me half.

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.