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 too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach… — 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
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
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
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
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
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A Copy Share
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
I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that. — M.I.A Copy Share
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your… — M.I.A Copy Share
