MIA tells today's Guardian that she has been considering auditioning for The X Factor but in disguise.

She said: "I was thinking of wearing a burqa and auditioning."

However, she thinks she would only get as far as the second round of auditions:

"They'd give me a second go, because I'd be in a burqa and they'd be politically correct. Then I would get kicked off."

MIA doesn't rate her own singing abilities: "I'm just a… not really a singer, I don't know what I am. I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist."

The 'Paper Planes' singer also speaks philosphically in today's Guardian about her new personal theory in which the world is made up of three types of people - pyramids, squares and circles.

She said: "I devised this theory that the world is made out of three types of people. Squares are logical and scientific. They create tools, so Steve Jobs would have been a square.

"The pyramids are the money structure and the religious structure and the ideological structures built by human beings. It's always a pyramid: the guy at the top, billions of people on the bottom, and you have to claw your way to the top and kill a lot of people on the way.

"The circle is all the other stuff we can't explain. If you cut a tree, the rings are circles, your eyeballs are circles, cells are circles. Einstein discovered how to split a circle and it resulted in the most negative thing for humankind. You can't fuck with the circle. And to be a successful human being, you have to understand all three concepts."

When asked who would be on top of the social pyramid, she philosophied: 

"I don't have an answer. You can only ask the questions to the guy at the top ...  the person who gets to the top usually has to be a cunt to get to the top."

M.I.A has always been brave about speaking her mind regarding politics especially about the Sri Lankan's army killing crusade against the Tamils, and her opinions have landed her in hot water with 'the top'.

When she criticised the Sri Lankan government in January 2009 for its alleged use of chemical weapons on Tamil civilians, the foreign secretary, Dr Palitha Kohona, said she should "stay with what she's good at, which is music, not politics".

However, M.I.A., now back in East London with her four-year-old son, Ikhyd, has inherited her late father's fighting spirit and intelligence:

"My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever – the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed and he slept on a table.

"He was tough because he was poor, and I can't imagine Russia being tolerant to brown people in the 60s or 70s. It can't have been a walk in the park."

MIA's new album, 'Matangi' is released on November 4.

Watch the lyric video for 'Come Walk With Me', and 'Bring The Noize video below: