My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

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

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 hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

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.