It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

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.

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.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. 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.

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.