You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.