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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
M.I.A.
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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Music Video Director
Musician
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Ventura County
California
Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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London
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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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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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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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Whoever's inside is inside whoever's out is out.
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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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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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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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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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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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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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My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.
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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'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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