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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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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
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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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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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I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name
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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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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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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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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
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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.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos. They funnel me through, Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?
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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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If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . .
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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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What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.
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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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