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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'