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OK, let's go and explore the rest of the world, and how easy is it to put together music through found objects and stuff, and people, and ideas and certain electricity, certain environments.

— M.I.A. Interview on Kala to Rolling Stone (2009)

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Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information?

Interview to URB (2007)

Who the hell is huntin' you?
In the BMW
How the hell they find you?

I saw firsthand where the music we made ended up. It turned up in sterile bullshit clubs in LA, separated from the spirit we made it in.

Google’s more powerful than any government now – people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re going to turn against us.

My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

Interview to Rolling Stone (2010)

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