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If music's a political place, I'm out.
M.I.A.
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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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I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.
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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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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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When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suits. Basically, like when you combine all the religions and take the best bits, you should be able to combine all the cities and take the best bits, the information, the tried and tested things.
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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
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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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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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I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
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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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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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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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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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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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Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.
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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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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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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 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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