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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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Music Video Director
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Ventura County
California
Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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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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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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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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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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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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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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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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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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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 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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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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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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That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.
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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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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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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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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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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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