I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me. M.I.A. More Quotes by M.I.A. More Quotes From M.I.A. I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context. M.I.A. luxury watches art 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. M.I.A. storm going-away thinking You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art. M.I.A. fashion stars art It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi. M.I.A. hanging-out taxi Everyone has that moment where they just rebel. M.I.A. that-moment rebel moments If music's a political place, I'm out. M.I.A. political ifs Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out. M.I.A. 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. M.I.A. tolerance people thinking 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. M.I.A. inspired talking years Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things. M.I.A. pieces political art You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside the system, and that's really super-f - king hard, and I'm sure there's some geniuses out there who can achieve it. M.I.A. kings together believe 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. M.I.A. creativity people art I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that. M.I.A. work-out space people The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders. M.I.A. accepted taken thinking Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples. M.I.A. sample made song I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept. M.I.A. nice art thinking Just make music; don't talk about politics. M.I.A. That's what I miss, being a real human. M.I.A. humans real missing 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. M.I.A. hips hip-hop weed I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other. M.I.A. east bridges want
