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.

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.

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

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

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.