I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

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.