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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
M.I.A.
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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.
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I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.
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That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.
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Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
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Whoever's inside is inside whoever's out is out.
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I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
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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 too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.
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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.
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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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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.
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My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.
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When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.
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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.
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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