Mika Quotes

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Mika

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 18, 1983

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

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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.

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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.

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

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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

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

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The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

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I am very suspicious of people.

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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.

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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.

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

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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

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Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

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Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Hype is scary.

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