M.I.A. Quotes

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

MTV ruined music for us.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in the demographic of people who watch MTV. I never really watched MTV, so I'm definitely not a fan of 'Jersey Shore' or anything.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a name people recognize on the screen was completely new.

People used to come home from school and plop down in front of the TV and religiously watch 'TRL.' It was a moment in time that I think a lot of people have a lot of fond memories of. It's a fun trip to take down memory lane because it was a great time for a lot of people, bands included.

I was an MTV guy back in the day.

It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?

I remember in the '70s or the early '80s, there were a lot of viewpoints represented on TV. And I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened in the '90s.

Rock n' roll is at a standstill, I think - and comedy is taking its place as something exciting.

Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.