It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

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

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.