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
Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring. — 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
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ,… — 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
I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of… — 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
The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear… — 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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