Tricky (musician)
British rapper and record producer
Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born January 27, 1968), who goes by the stage name Tricky, is an English record producer, rapper, and actor.
Quotes
edit- I never thought of my music as dark…It can’t be that dark to get people through a dark period, can it?
- On how Tricky views his music and impact in “Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 14)
- “This ain’t bad-guy talk, cos I’m not a bad guy…But people don’t realise what fear can do. I’ve had situations where I’ve been so scared, where I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, and it’s gone on for weeks and it’s ruining my life. It makes you sick, it makes you mentally ill.
- On his possession of a firearm due to high anxiety in “Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 14)
- I’ve a kinship with women…That’s why I’ve always put women in strong positions in music.
- On how the toughness of his female family members shaped Tricky’s musical direction in “Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 14)
- One of the biggest problems with my daughter is that I’ve never loved anybody that much before…I was there at her birth. And all of a sudden I started feeling things. And it was too much for me. Because I was emotionally numb, and it was easier for me to get through life being emotionally numb, but then suddenly I was feeling things…I’ve lost people before, like grandmothers, but I’ve bounced back…This is different. Everything looks different, even music doesn’t sound the same. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I was in Islington yesterday and I was hoping I was going to see her, hoping she’s gonna walk up to me.
- On the loss of his daughter Mazy (who died at 24) in “Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 14)
