Everything I write is about me.
— Mika
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.
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.
Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.
I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.
I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with 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.
I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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.
The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?
I am totally unapologetic about pop music.
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.
In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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.
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'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
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.
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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.
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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.
My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
I love collaborating with strong women.
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.
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.
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
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.
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
I collect toys.
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.
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
Hype is scary.
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.
Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.
A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
I am very suspicious of people.
Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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.
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.
You can't deny your limitations.
