I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

I wasn't as confident and creative in the beginning as I am now, so it was all very safe. But I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. This was in the late '70s, early '80s, so it wasn't like today, where you kind of know all about the industry. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.