The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what… — 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
