What M.I.A. Wants To Wear On Her Wedding Day

NEW YORK (CBS) Lots of future brides dream of getting married in white gowns, but white suits?

"I've always wanted to get married in a white suit" proclaims "Paper Planes" singer M.I.A., who shares this and other wishes in the July 2010 issue of GQ magazine.

The star is promoting her weirdly titled new album "/\/\/\Y/\" based on her given name Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam.

She's a 34-year-old rock mama who relocated to the City of Angels by-way-of Brooklyn's Bed Stuy neighborhood to raise her toddler son.

The singer's colorful stories are about as varied as those of any post-adolescent army brat. The memory of a childhood in a war-torn Sri Lanka still resonates for the singer, who does her best to compartmentalize the many experiences she has, from "refugee" turned London art-school anti-geek to genre-pushing alternative pop star. It's summed up in her lyrics: "I got brown skin but I'm a West Londoner / Educated but I'm still a refugee."

Staying street-smart in constantly changing surroundings did take its toll for the star, especially without her dad around. "England gave me a free education," she says, "but my grades suffered because I didn't have my dad to help me. I've paid the price. I've had the cause and effect, all that. I feel like I don't have anything to do with my dad."

Still, M.I.A. paints herself as a medium stuck between "the Third World and the First World" juggling that duality in her life and art. She's ready to venture to somewhere that even this far-out maven of the cool and obscure hasn't yet vistited: "I'm ready to go to Ohio," she says to GQ, sort of kidding. "I would love to move next door to Dave Chappelle. That's my dream. If I stick around America, that's what I'm doing."

The full article is available at GQ magazine.