Mika Quotes

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.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

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

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

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.

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

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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

Everything I write is about me.

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

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

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 necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

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

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

You can't deny your limitations.

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.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

I am terrible at relationships.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

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.

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

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

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 obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

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

I was born out of classical music.

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

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

I love collaborating with strong women.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

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

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

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.