I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness… — 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… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
People say we're similar with Lady Gaga, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently,… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I… — 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
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
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a… — 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 record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or… — 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
In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in… — 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
If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in… — 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
If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light. — 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
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