Sometimes I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I'm in a good mood. It's like everyone else.
Tricky
Yes, well, on stage I'm a different person, very aggressive, very tense. That's not me because I'm humble and polite, unless someone is rude to me.
I'll play about with different sounds in the studio with no concept of music at all. I'll just build up a song in layers and when it sounds all right and gives me a vibe, that's enough, and I'll add vocals and move on.
People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.
This ain't bad-guy talk, cos I'm not a bad guy. But people don't realise what fear can do. I've had situations where I've been so scared, where I can't sleep, I can't eat, and it's gone on for weeks and it's ruining my life. It makes you sick, it makes you mentally ill.
I have no time for perfection.
Sometimes I walk down the street and hear people whisper 'that's Tricky' and I look back, and I see them looking back, then that affects everything I do - the way I walk the way I talk. It stops you being real.
A lot of young people have not a clue what being famous entails. When you lose your anonymity you can't walk down the street without people looking at you.
If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.
Sometimes I could do with a shoulder to cry on, someone to come home and talk to.
Well, the truth is that we are all mystical and that there is something going on that can't be explained. Outside of the day-to-day stuff like getting up going to work, we all have something going on within us, and we all know that there is something going on - we're spiritual creatures and we are very powerful.
I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.
There are certain things you can talk to a partner about and it's someone to lean on. But I refuse to get into a relationship just for the sake of comfort.
I lived in New Jersey in a massive house, not a 50 Cent mansion, but four bedrooms, and I had acres of land.
I've met a couple of total wrecks who've loved Bjork and ended up broken hearted. I didn't love her.
Surviving in music is the same as surviving in a place like Knowle West - sometimes you need to be low-key, but sometimes you need to make your presence felt.
I can't just be thinking about what people like.
I'd love to be part Apache Indian. But I'm from Bristol. No Apaches there mate.
The Queen wanted me to do the music for the 2000 celebrations at the Dome. I went down to these offices at Buckingham Palace and had a meeting with these people, and I was like, 'Alright how much?' And they said, 'Well no, it's for the Queen.' They thought because it's such a huge thing, I'd do it for free! So I turned that down.
I've never been shown how to get rid of my anger. I think I do it through my music.
Bjork was so good to me. She's very independent and she doesn't suck your energy. She lets you be you. She's a free spirit so she knows how to be with a free spirit. That's the only sort of woman I could see myself staying with.
Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.
I'm not very good with roughing it.
Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.
I never like something too live or too electronic. I'll take a bit of both.
For a child, it's not so much scary, it's surreal; there was a lot of fighting in my great-grandmother's house; you'd go there and then someone would meet up and there'd be a fight; I've seen my uncles fight in the street, I've seen my grandmother fight in the street, it becomes normal.
As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.
A guy threw a stone at my head when I was eight. I told my nan, and she said, 'Get a bigger stone.' That's what I got programmed into me. And sometimes I find it a struggle to get it out of me.
This album, 'ununiform,' I didn't even have to record it if I didn't want to.
I was quite... feminine. Not in my actions, in my ways. If one of my uncles had trouble at school, they'd go to that person and thump him. It's all a man thing. They got sent off to boxing when they were kids. You live in a tough area, you get off to boxing. My auntie tried to do that to me. I lasted six minutes in boxing.
I'm hard work to live with. Someone who wants to be my girlfriend has to be totally devoted because I don't give very much back.
When I lived in Knowle West, I must have been the same person I am now. It wasn't like someone came and sprinkled superstar dust on me. So that means all the kids who come from that kind of background can do what I'm doing. They're superstars just waiting to happen.
I never considered myself a funny person.
I have my routine. In the evenings I watch 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier.' That finishes about 11.30 and then I go to bed. I get up at eight o'clock every day, and I'm on the phone straight away, doing business.
If I'd lived in Bristol, I'd probably be doing building site stuff, plastering. Probably not the plastering. It would have been mixing. I could always get work from friends who did construction. But I wasn't into getting up at seven in the morning.
I'm like anyone else, if I'm not having a good time you'll hear it.
Oh, I still like dresses. I've still got plenty of them. It's just that I don't put them on specially for photo-shoots anymore. It's just part of my everyday life.
I'm not going to be pretentious and two-faced to get a good review. But that's the kind of thing which gets you a rep in this business.
I don't believe in death. I just don't think all that love and all that energy can just disappear into nothing.
My background was Rude Boys, Teddy Boys, rockabillys and skinheads. I was into reggae and Blondie and The Cure, and especially The Specials - these black and white guys getting it together. Extreme personalities. Extreme talent.
I cry at absolutely anything. 'Lethal Weapon,' the fight scene at the end - you can see it on YouTube.
There's bound to be turbulence in any situation if you're with someone for long enough. Especially if you're with someone like me.
Because I didn't come from money I didn't know to manage it.
I would work with someone humble like that guy Peter Andre than Madonna.
School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.
The royal family don't mean nothing.
I've got one younger brother who can do prison like his breakfast, but I'm not built for it.
I've learned to enjoy a very simple lifestyle.
When I'm not on tour, my band have to do pantomime. I want to do big gigs to earn them money.
People used to talk about my lyrical content and not about my music, and to be honest, I think I have got lazy with my lyrics over the years.
