I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.