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A s you might imagine given Tricky’s track record (including crucial trip-hop touchstones PreMillenium Tension and Maxinquaye) and family history (his father left before he was born, and his mother committed suicide when he was a toddler), the artist is, well, tricky. So much so that the following self-titled interview pieces together a pair of interviews with the legend: one conducted in the early summer months, as a laidback Tricky spent time in London, and one filed in the middle of a rare (and by the sound of his swift answers, quite stressful) US tour behind his new return-to-form record, Knowle West Boy (Domino). As squirrelly as Tricky can be in person, he offers rare insights into an enduring icon of pitch-dark pop music and the Bristol sound that gave birth to Massive Attack (one of his first rapping gigs) and Portishead. self-titled: We haven’t heard much from you since 2003. What have you been up to? I’m always traveling. When I’m in one place for too long, I stop noticing things. My favorite place to go is Japan. I don’t recognize it at all. I feel, when I’m there, that I could be on Mars in the distant future. Do you consider yourself press shy? Sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say. And with the press, you always have to have something to say. I had to have some adventures to have things to talk about. The music industry is a press game—keeping your profile up—and I didn’t have so much to say about [2001’s] Blowback and [2003’s] Vulnerable. That was a reflective time of my life. Now I’m doing loads of press because I have so much to do. Some people do construction work; this is my job. It’s nice that people are interested in what I have to say. If you’re working a 9-to-5, no one’s asking you your opinion. You’re wearing a mask on the cover of Knowle West Boy. Are you tired of being photographed? No. I was on Sunset Boulevard, and I saw that mask. I love acting. I love pantomime. Music is a great opportunity to be other people. Sometimes I become my mother. Sometimes I become my grandmother. Sometimes I want to be a woman. Sometimes I want to be a rapper. 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