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
Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written… — 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
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
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
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
'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and… — 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
