Mika Quotes - Page 4

I was born out of classical music.

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

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.

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

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

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.