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M.I.A.

Businessmen in society are not...

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

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I never pigeonholed myself - t...

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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When I came to England in '86,...

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 named my first album after m...

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've documented a lot of thing...

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

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Everyone has that moment where...

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

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The music industry was invente...

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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My statements aren't incomplet...

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

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The consequence of making it a...

The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

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There has been an effect of bu...

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

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If you narrow the playing fiel...

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

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Music that was made in the 60s...

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.

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I think people were genuinely ...

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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Art is supposed to be about cr...

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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I think when something becomes...

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.

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There's a bit of hope that a s...

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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I don't really see a differenc...

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

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I am the bridge between the Ea...

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

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Just make music; don't talk ab...

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

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Retirement: a brand new beginn...

Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

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