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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
![“I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/855/m-i-a-3418_empowerment_i-think-people-were-genuinely-addicted-t_1920052.jpg)
![“Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate…” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0a6/m-i-a-3418_bigger_nowadays-young-musicians-are-so-quick-to_1829027.jpg)
