I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name — M.I.A Copy Share Image
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult… — 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
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It… — 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
![“I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/855/m-i-a-3418_empowerment_i-think-people-were-genuinely-addicted-t_1920052.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)
![“What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a82/m-i-a-3418_businessman_what-s-wrong-with-hip-hop-is-that-it-bec_2848132.jpg)
