You must always do what you feel is right.

I was a bit of a rebel.

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

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.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

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.

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.