Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy… — 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
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
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was… — 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
