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Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

My heart is like a singing bird.

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I don't think I do have a soul.