Tricky

“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.”

“The Internet is like walking into a room in your house you never knew was there and, like, it's full of thousands of people who have been listening to everything you've been doing and saying the whole time! Scary.”

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

“If I had made another 'Maxinquaye,' I'd have had ten times as much success. I ain't going down that path, because that way you're totally controlled by people around you. I don't want to be controlled.”

“I don't believe in death. I just don't think all that love and all that energy can just disappear into nothing.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I'm straight-up with people.”

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

“The music I should be doing is music that you haven't heard before - whether you like it or not. I don't want to just repeat.”

“I have loyal fans, really loyal fans.”

“Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.”

“My manager told me that a kid who was in a coma woke up after ten days when they played him one of my songs. That now means more to me than winning any award.”

“I've met a couple of total wrecks who've loved Bjork and ended up broken hearted. I didn't love her.”

“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 didn't want to be just a Top 20 artist.”