If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

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.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

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 just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

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.