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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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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.
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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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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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My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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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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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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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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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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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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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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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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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 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 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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Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.
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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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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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