I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do.… — 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… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was… — 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
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
It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named… — 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
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
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I… — 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,… — 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
