Tricky - Interview||TheWire

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The Wire: You’ve said that you can’t make your music without women – why is that?

Tricky : ... My mother. My mother, I found out when I was making a documentary, used to write poetry but in her time she couldn’t have done anything with that, there wasn’t any opportunity. It’s almost like she killed herself to give me the opportunity, my lyrics. I can never understand why I write as a female, I think I’ve got my mum’s talent, I’m her vehicle. So I need a woman to sing that.

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Tricky : ... ‘fuck this I just wanna have kids, I don’t wanna die’ it was basically about that, about him wanting to stay with his woman, and his father saying 'nah, you gotta do this' and him saying 'nah, I don’t care, that is you not me, I can’t do this for you'.

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Tricky : : I grew up in a white ghetto. My Dad’s Jamaican, my grandmother is white. When I was growing up, until I was about 16, everything was normal. When I moved to an ethnic ghetto I had friends there and my friends would say, why do you hang out with those skinhead guys, the white guys? And my skinhead friends were like, why you hanging out with those black guys? I couldn’t get it, I couldn’t understand it.


Interview By: Mark Fisher

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