I've never, ever labeled myself.
— Mika
My relationship with my mother is not cute.
When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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.
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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 stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.
You never know which gig is going to be your last.
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
I'm dangerously generous.
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.
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.
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
I lack trust in others.
Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.
I am terrible at relationships.
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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.
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 born out of classical music.
Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.
I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.
