I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

Beautiful things are different.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.