When I very first started performing Steve prior to getting on YouTube, yeah, I tried to sound like Richard a little, mainly because I was a dumb teenager at the time, and I was certain that I'd be performing on SST one day, and that Steve would eventually become my signature character (much like how Steve Whitmire played around with a rat puppet he found in a box and it became Rizzo). Overtime however, as I grew into the character and tried shifting away from trying to be like the Muppets to being more myself, I eventually just started pitching my own voice higher and adding a bit of a neurotic twang for a childlike quality, and that's Steve's voice.