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

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

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

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.

When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.

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.