I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

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

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.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

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.