Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind'

Tricky's mother killed herself when he was four and violence has always surrounded him, so it's little surprise that he has battled to make sense of his life. But the Bristolian musician is confronting the truths about his pastWhen we meet, at his record company's office in south London, the first thing Tricky tells me is that he hasn't smoked a joint in three weeks. He's intrigued by his willpower. It is the longest period of abstinence he has managed, he says, since he was 15. The original tri...

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