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… — M.I.A Boring 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,… — M.I.A Could 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… — M.I.A Achieve 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… — M.I.A Answer 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… — M.I.A 1960s Copy Share Image
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Crazy Copy Share Image
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A Businessman 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… — M.I.A Art Copy Share Image
In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated. — M.I.A England Copy Share Image
I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like… — M.I.A Load Copy Share Image
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 Age 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 Grace Copy Share Image
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 Business Copy Share Image
I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do.… — M.I.A About Copy Share Image
The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I… — M.I.A Always Copy Share Image
I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom… — M.I.A Albums 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 Made Copy Share Image
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time. — M.I.A About Copy Share Image
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. — M.I.A Culture Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? — M.I.A Bullshit Copy Share Image
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it.… — M.I.A Am Copy Share Image
