Mika Quotes

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

- Mika

Normal, More, Increasingly, Normal Life

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

- Mika

Responsibility, Created, Sonic

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

- Mika

Voice, Always, Hypochondriac, Blasting

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

- Mika

Art, Big, Comic Books, Art Forms

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

- Mika

Myself, Behind, Away, Fictional

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

- Mika

Shut, Biggest Problem, Mule

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

- Mika

Identity, Uninterested, Complacent

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.

- Mika

Think, Always, Otherwise, Odd

There's always apprehension whenever I launch anything, it seems. When I launch a tour, people are always, 'Oooh, is this gonna work?' And when I launch an album: 'Ooh, is this gonna work?' Or a new video. 'Really?' It's always like that - but I've always acted on the impulse that I have nothing to lose.

- Mika

Anything, Ooh, Video, Apprehension

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

- Mika

Melody, Anarchic, Disarming

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

- Mika

Plate, Dishes, Eventually, Buffet

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

- Mika

Stupid, Proud, Idiotic, Why Not

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

- Mika

Kid, Wearing, Ties, Matching

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

- Mika

Doll, Like, Fridge, Tar

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

- Mika

Some, Sexuality, Mine, Defined

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

- Mika

Private, Putting, Almost, Ceremony

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

- Mika

Deal, I Think, Anybody, Possibly

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

- Mika

Artist, Get, Sure, Reactions

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

- Mika

Bad, Indie, Highest, Snob

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

- Mika

Quiet, Quite, Little Bit, Teenager

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

- Mika

Fact, Other, Compare, Fully

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

- Mika

Music, Big, Like, Dance Music

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

- Mika

Childhood, References, About, Rhyme

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

- Mika

Very, Read, Aural, Lyrics

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

- Mika

Think, I Think, Certainly, Vile

I collect toys.

- Mika

Toys, Collect

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

- Mika

Want, I Write, Brought, Different Cultures

I was born out of classical music.

- Mika

Music, Born, I Was Born, Classical Music

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

- Mika

Mother, Made, Most, Designed

Hype is scary.

- Mika

Scary, Hype

Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

- Mika

Myself, Other, Part, Stuck

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

- Mika

Some, About, Range, Element

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

- Mika

Reason, Listen, Down, Junk

I am terrible at relationships.

- Mika

I Am, Relationships, Am, Terrible

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.

- Mika

I Wish, Away, Running Away, Faces

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

- Mika

Role, In The Past, Models, Gay

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

- Mika

Music, I Am, Pop, Pop Music

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

- Mika

Life, People, Some, Pop Music

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

- Mika

Reality, Most, Jobs, Rooted

You can't deny your limitations.

- Mika

You, Your, Deny, Limitations

I'm dangerously generous.

- Mika

Generous, Dangerously

I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.

- Mika

Love, Shame, Always, Press

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

- Mika

Think, Shy, Maybe, Egotism

Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

- Mika

Real, Oh, Quite, Real Life

A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.

- Mika

Idiot, Will, Always, Stylist

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

- Mika

Boxing, Ring, Stage, Territory

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

- Mika

Always, Like, Indie, Cheesy

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

- Mika

Star, Like, Another, Music Industry

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

- Mika

Grow, Give, Enigma, Devoured

I am very suspicious of people.

- Mika

I Am, Very, Am, Suspicious

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

- Mika

Never, Nothing, Ever, Posters

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

- Mika

Queen, Comparison, Tries, Futile

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

- Mika

Find, Another, Part, Another Way

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

- Mika

Brilliant, Very, Gaga, None

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

- Mika

Think, I Think, Lot, Transcends

I love collaborating with strong women.

- Mika

Love, Strong, I Love, Collaborating

It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.

- Mika

Through, Very, Quickly, Flashy

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

- Mika

Move, Throw, Dancer, Shapes

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

- Mika

Artist, Compare, Mercury, None

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

- Mika

Start, Crisis, Record, Finish

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

- Mika

Men, Songs, I Write, Mexico

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

- Mika

Want, Records, Make, Pop

I've never, ever labeled myself.

- Mika

Myself, Never, Ever, Labeled

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

- Mika

Over, Speculation, Amount, Private Life

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

- Mika

Like, Obsessed, Plastic

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

- Mika

Mother, Relationship, Cute

Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.

- Mika

Dress, Lunch, Think, Sandwich

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

- Mika

School, Pretty, Found, Mickey

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

- Mika

Fact, Date, Ever, In Fact

I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.

- Mika

Want, Find, Like, Stick

I lack trust in others.

- Mika

Trust, Others, Lack

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

- Mika

Blur, New, Often, Dangerous

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

- Mika

Never, Last, Which, Gig

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

- Mika

Religious, Particularly, Fascinated

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

- Mika

World, Serious, Most, Best Way

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

- Mika

Never, Talk, About, Sexuality

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

- Mika

Myself, Want, I Write, Something Else

Everything I write is about me.

- Mika

Me, Everything, About, I Write

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