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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.
- Tricky
#Look
#Looking Back
#Real
#Street
#Walk
I grew up in a mixed-race family in Bristol. My cousin was this white guy who was interested in Parliament, Marc Bolan, Bowie. His friends were football thugs and while I was getting ready for bed, they'd be listening to all that music. When I was older, I'd go to a Jamaican sound system and there were no white people.
- Tricky
#Bed
#Family
#Football
#Listening
#Music
I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.
- Tricky
#Crazy Life
#Crazy
#Easy
#Life
#Me
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.
- Tricky
#Black And White
#Black
#Talent
#Together
I think Kylie's underrated... Cool is knowing yourself and I think Kylie Minogue really knows who she is and doesn't try to be anything else.
- Tricky
#Cool
#Knowing
#Try
#Underrated
#Yourself
I didn't want to be just a Top 20 artist.
- Tricky
#Artist
#Just
#Top
#Want
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.
- Tricky
#Nothing
#Poor
#Rich
#Success
#Unhappy
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.
- Tricky
#Doing
#I Am
#Me
#Person
#Waiting
There's a certain type of success you can have where it means nothing. You're just becoming someone in Hello! magazine and no one knows what you actually do any more... the only way to escape that is to go back underground.
- Tricky
#Back
#Escape
#Nothing
#Success
#Way
She ain't my queen. My grandmother is my queen, and my auntie, my cousin, my daughters... the Queen's never done anything for me.
- Tricky
#Done
#Me
#Never
#Queen
#She
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.
- Tricky
#Famous
#Looking
#Lose
#People
#Street
#Walk
The royal family don't mean nothing.
- Tricky
#Family
#Mean
#Nothing
#Royal
If someone is cool to me, I'll be cool to them.
- Tricky
#Cool
#Me
#Someone
#Them
People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.
- Tricky
#Fight
#Life
#People
#Rest
#Stuck
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.
- Tricky
#Live
#Man
#Me
#School
#Tough
I'm not very good with roughing it.
- Tricky
#Good
#Very
I was never part of the Bristol scene. My sound was a Knowle West sound. Massive Attack wouldn't come to my area because they know they'd have got beaten up there.
- Tricky
#Attack
#Know
#Never
#Scene
#Sound
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.
- Tricky
#Building
#Construction
#Morning
#Work
I don't like creepy-crawly stuff. Girls can pick up a spider and just chuck it out of the window. No way, I'm not doing that. I actually scream.
- Tricky
#Doing
#Spider
#Up
#Way
#Window
Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.
- Tricky
#Girl
#Hip-Hop
#Never
#Singing
#They Say
I'm like anyone else, if I'm not having a good time you'll hear it.
- Tricky
#Good
#Having A Good Time
#Hear
#Time
Madonna working with Justin Timberlake is supposed be cool but I don't think there's anything cool about it.
- Tricky
#About
#Anything
#Cool
#Supposed
#Think
#Working
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.
- Tricky
#Everyday Life
#Just
#Life
#Like
#Still
Sometimes I could do with a shoulder to cry on, someone to come home and talk to.
- Tricky
#Cry
#Home
#Shoulder
#Sometimes
#Talk
I never considered myself a funny person.
- Tricky
#Considered
#Funny
#Myself
#Never
#Person
Because I didn't come from money I didn't know to manage it.
- Tricky
#Because
#Come
#Know
#Manage
#Money
Sometimes I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I'm in a good mood. It's like everyone else.
- Tricky
#Bad Mood
#Bad
#Good Mood
#Good
#Mood
I've never been shown how to get rid of my anger. I think I do it through my music.
- Tricky
#Anger
#Music
#Never
#Think
#Through
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