Quotes from Tricky

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.

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.

I lived in New Jersey in a massive house, not a 50 Cent mansion, but four bedrooms, and I had acres of land.

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.

Unity makes you stronger - you need that in this business.

I've always loved rock music. I've always loved stuff like the Specials and the Breeders and things like that. But it was hip-hop that really got me into music.

I never like something too live or too electronic. I'll take a bit of both.

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.

I have loyal fans, really loyal fans.

Because I didn't come from money I didn't know to manage it.