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

I'm a great jazz fan.

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.

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.

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.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.