Tricky

Tricky
With me and Tricky I don’t think we ever knew if we were going out together or not. I mean, we were going out together and then we weren’t. Because, basically, the way our relationship functioned was that we were a support mechanism for each other, and we still have this kind of, like, permission to call each other in the middle of the night, when I’m in fucking Munich and he’s in fucking Tokyo. It’s a very strange job we’ve got, and we don’t have to explain it : we know. And we know the pressure. So that’s more what our relationship is like and still is. And I think it didn’t last a long time before we realised that that is why we’d met and sucked like a magnet to each...

Dazed&Confused, issue 16, january 1996

Tricky
He’s Mr Chaos, he likes to be Mr Unpredictable and turn his back on the world and play hard to get. I like Tricky - he got that nickname at school and it’s no coincidence. If you want Tricky to go right, you ask him to go left. If you want to do an aggressive song, you suggest doing something tender, and vice versa. But now I think he’s sussed me out !

Raw, janvier 1996

Tricky
She’s a professional. She can deal with it. She could go to a club and people would fuck with her and she could deal with it. But she’s been doing it since she was 11. It weren’t no love thing. We needed each other at that time. I met her ; she supported me, I supported her, boom.

Blah Blah Blah, december 1996

Tricky
He’s the most important person around, he’s just so brave. The most important element about Tricky, which I think a lot of people overlook, is his honesty. He’s not scared of being ugly. A lot of people are always beautifying themselves and making themselves more glamorous. But it’s just truth. And you can’t kill that.

Blah Blah Blah, december 1996

Tricky
I definitely learned from Tricky, but not about beats. With Tricky, it’s the relationship he has with his songs. It’s that abstract, you can’t point it out. It was fascinating to watch him work. Especially with how he focused on a song and the emotions, so it really isn’t just a song anymore. He has this outrageous faith in the focus point of the song, its like meditation. It doesn’t matter if there’s no logic in the lyrics, or in the music. It’s still that faith. I respect him very much for that.

Raygun, September 1997

Tricky
I worked with him for a couple of songs on Post. He’s completely obsessed by anything that’s unpredictable. If you tell him to go left, he’ll go right. If you tell him to go see a dentist, he’ll take it as : whatever you do, DON’T go see a dentist ! I love that.

Oor, 6/95

Tricky
We never really had a relationship, if y’know what I mean. We were in weak states, and just leant on each other. She demands quite a lot as a person, and she’s really into giving, she’ll give you everything, love and all that. But I can’t handle that. She’s got a bit of a fairy-tale life. She wants to be in love. And we got into a stupid argument. She asked me if I love her, and I said, ’No, I don’t. Do you mean, do I need you ? You’re a wicked person, but I can’t say I’m in love with you." And then it all went up in the air, and she had her heart broken, and I left. But I think she thought she was in love with me, or she liked the thought of two people being in...

Detour Magazine, 1996