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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but... →
I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either... →
Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight... →
When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I... →
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's... →
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And... →
I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say... →
It's interesting, because 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... →
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or... →
In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color... →