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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.
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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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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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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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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Whoever's inside is inside whoever's out is out.
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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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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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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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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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I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
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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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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 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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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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