Quotes from Tricky

The royal family don't mean nothing.

Schizophrenia runs in the family.

My head works a little faster than people around me sometimes and it can be quite painful. It was a problem for me in school because I couldn't sit down long enough. I couldn't concentrate. So I didn't go to classes very much.

When I'm not on tour, my band have to do pantomime. I want to do big gigs to earn them money.

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.

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.

Sometimes I could do with a shoulder to cry on, someone to come home and talk to.

I've never been shown how to get rid of my anger. I think I do it through my music.

I have no time for perfection.

I'd love to be part Apache Indian. But I'm from Bristol. No Apaches there mate.

If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.

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.

Someone at Hollywood Records said, 'Are you into Alanis Morissette?' I said 'Yeah, she sells 26 million albums, of course. It would be perverse if she works with me, but I don't think you can get her.' A week later they say she's coming down the studio.

I would work with someone humble like that guy Peter Andre than Madonna.

People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.

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.

Being naive I think is how you construct new music. When you start thinking too much what is it you're doing? You're just making an album. You're not doing brain surgery. If you take it too seriously you start taking yourself too seriously.

I can be anything I want when I do an album. I can be vulnerable, I can be weak, I can be nasty, I can be strong, I can be good, I can be bad. They're all in there - but in society you don't get to use all these personalities because you're trained.

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 would rather hang out with a cleaner than a celebrity.

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.

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.

As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.

I've a kinship with women. That's why I've always put women in strong positions in music.