The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a… — 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
The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and… — 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
