Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
Marina and the Diamonds
Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.
If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be... →
I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has... →
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we... →
This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.
I really do want people to listen to the music more than watch what I wear. There's time for that later. I've got the rest of my life to... →
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again... →
M.I.A.
In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had... →
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would... →