Mika. Quotes

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.

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.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

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

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

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

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.

Live your life until love is found Or love's gonna get you down

Never trust a man in red trousers

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

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

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

Did you know, I'm still in love with this blue sky until forever and ever, eternally.

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

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

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

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

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

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.

The winner is just the loser who never gave up!

Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.

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

No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.

I lack trust in others.

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

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

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.

At the age of 30, you should already know yourself and what you want from life!

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

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

Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

I am very suspicious of people.

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

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

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

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.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

I was born out of classical music.

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

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

I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.