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 took Instagram off my phone! I took it off because I found I was looking at it too much.

I used to have more meltdowns backstage than I do [now].... It's not that it was ever cool, but right now, it just seems very uncool to have a meltdown. I'm not saying I'll never have one! But I've learnt to stop it just before it happens.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

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.