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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
M.I.A.
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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Ventura County
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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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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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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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.
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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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I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
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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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