I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.