Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.
Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.
Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.