Who is M.I.A

Galang (2003)
Sunshowers (2004)
Galang (2004)
Bucky Done Gun (2005)
Galang '05 (2005)
Live Session (iTunes Exclusive) - EP (2005)
Boyz (2007)
Boyz EP (2007)
Jimmy (2007)
Paper Planes (2007)
Paper Planes (Homeland Security Remixes) - EP (2008)

Arular (2005)
Kala (2007)

'From Day One, this has been a mad, crazy thing: I say the things I'm not supposed to say, I look wrong, my music doesn't sound comfortable for any radio stations or genres, people are having issues with my videos when they're not rude or explicit or crazy controversial. I find it all really funny.'

'As an artist, most of the work that I rate is in my sketchbook. The way people always view making an album in the music industry is so sterile-- I wanted to make a really sketchy, mad thing come together.'

'At school, they sent me off with the special-needs people-- that's how I learned English. For the first couple of years, I didn't feel integrated into anything, cause I was always that weird kid who gets put into a van and goes somewhere else for four hours a day.'

'When Lauryn Hill got really big with the Fugees, apparently she turned around and said, "I don't make music for white people." I feel the opposite, 'cause it is about communicating. I want to talk about where I fit it on this planet.'

'.... the last time I lived in India as a kid was totally different it was the hardest part of my life, when we lived there for a year-and-a-half: people were dying of typhoid, we were drinking loads of contaminated water, we had no medicine, I had no hair and scabs all over my head.'

' I could've been rolling in a Bentley looking glamorous. But I just couldn't, 'cos there's just not many people going to be tough enough to stick their head out. Even if it's wrong or right, the point is you've just knocked down a couple of extra walls and made something else happen. There's got to be something in being true to yourself.'