When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'
We can see the weather change, that the birds don't come to the city anymore... We seriously have to think about preserving nature.
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.