If she doesn't return to the U.S. to tour again, one thing M.I.A. won't miss is the controversy surrounding some of her live shows.

As she did during her fantastic set last year at Toronto's Virgin Festival, M.I.A. encouraged dozens of fans to the stage at this year's Coachella festival in Indio, Calif. Organizers didn't think highly of the security breach however, cutting off her sound, curtailing her set and causing a stalemate between themselves and the performer playing in one of the smaller tents.

"Coachella was a bit of a riot and we kind of fell out," she says.

"The cops turned up to shut me down. It was insane, there were people fainting and passing out and it was like a near riot. People were climbing on tops of the tents, on the scaffolding parts, so they were scared that the tents were going to collapse.

"And none of it was my fault. Everyone was complaining that I should've been on the main stage and not in the actual tent."

And despite the problems that come with bringing so many people to the stage and not being exactly sure what might occur, M.I.A. says there haven't been any problems so far.

Well, at least not for her.

"There have been issues with my team," she says. "I have a team of people like my friend and my brother who try to help me and the girls that work for me and they've been getting beaten up by my fans.

"My brother was bottled at the Boston show and the girl I'm with on stage, she constantly gets beaten up. That's what my team has to deal with -- they have to be good dealing with that stuff on stage."