SMQ: Tell me about your instrument, your voice. I'm fascinated by your voice, your singing voice. Can you tell me a little bit more about it?

T: Like a year ago I can remember someone said to me once, "Watch my voice". Cause from Massive Attack it's got a lot different - you know, it's gone down. But when I was a lot younger I used to go out with this girl. We were about fifteen, and we were playing around and she put her fingers down my throat, trying to make me be sick. You know, we were drunk, and she cut my throat. I went to see a throat doctor. I got a lump in my throat. I can leave it or take it out, but he said if I take it off, I will be able to sing like hit top notes, like opera. I asked a few people round, and they said don't do it. I'm a frustrated singer - I've always wanted to be able to sing.

SMQ:You sing beautifully, and that's not wank talking people. Really beautifully.

T: The grass is always greener. So I'll listen to people like Bob Marley or John Lennon or PRINCE and I get gutted cause I'd love to be able to sing a song like that. But everyone around me is like saying "don't do it, don't do it". So I'm not going to bother. Maybe like when I'm forty or something.

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T: ... so working with Mark Saunders was a very good thing for me, because it made me so militant. Like the same thing with Howie B, he got co-production for nothing. I only did one song with him, but he's built a career out of it for nothing, and he's... I don't listen to the guy because I don't like the music. But people kind of vampire you - there's a lot of vampires in this industry, so people just vamp you, man.

SMQ: It's interesting, because I remember PRINCE saying, "Why don't you become a producer? Does someone tell you what to wear in the morning, how you're gonna dress?"

T: Same thing, yeah, exactly.

SMQ: Are you gonna clothe me?

T: Some bands need production, I think. Some things need production.