I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and… — 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
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
Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it...… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
