You must always do what you feel is right.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

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.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

I was a bit of a rebel.

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.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.