I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
M.I.A.I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
M.I.A.If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
M.I.A.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.
M.I.A.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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