I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite 'milkmaid' braid.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.

It's very liberating to cut your hair.

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

I love the fact that my hair has a life of its own.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I took to my hairdresser was Jean Seberg in Breathless. I said, 'Make me look like this.'

I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn't interested in having to follow.

You let the hair down, and that's when the wild man comes out.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 13 because I wanted to be like my mum and my gran, who both have blonde hair.

I, personally, like to get dressed and then do my makeup and hair in about five minutes.