If you look good, we look good.

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

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

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.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

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