Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

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.

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

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