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I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative.