Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ,… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
![“Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate…” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0a6/m-i-a-3418_bigger_nowadays-young-musicians-are-so-quick-to_1829027.jpg)
![“Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only…” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/m-i-a-3418_art_now-hip-hop-grime-artists-stormzy-skepta_2579135.jpg)
