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.

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.

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.

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

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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