M.I.A.

“People say, ‘Oh, she’s cheating. She has no guitar, she can’t play anything, she can’t even sing,’” she admits. “But that’s why music is so textbook these days. You’ve got to flip it—yeah, I can’t play and sing, but I’m gonna do something you could never copy and do. That’s the philosophy of MIA—cut and paste and bish and bosh.”