Mika Quotes - Page 3

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

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!

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

Everything I write is about me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)!

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.

It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.

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.

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

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 am very suspicious of people.

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

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

I love collaborating with strong women.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I want to make big-sounding pop records.