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 think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

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

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.