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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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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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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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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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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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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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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 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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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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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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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 feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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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 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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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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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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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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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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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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If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
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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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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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