I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
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
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there. — 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
