Top 90 Mika Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!”

— Mika

2. “The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That’s where I’m free.”

— Mika

3. “Oh, I’m quite harmless in real life.”

— Mika

4. “I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it’s a tree or a coffee cup. I can’t resist.”

— Mika

5. “Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!”

— Mika

6. “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!”

— Mika

7. “I have opinions on everything. I’m a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.”

— Mika

8. “Live your life until love is found Or love’s gonna get you down.”

— Mika

9. “Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.”

— Mika

10. “I am very suspicious of people.”

— Mika

11. “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.”

— Mika

12. “I was born out of classical music.”

— Mika

13. “Clear skies will mean you are happy. Rain will mean you’re crying. Sunset means you are embarrassed. Night will mean you are gently holding me.”

— Mika

14. “I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I’m proud of them. Why not make mistakes?”

— Mika

15. “Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.”

— Mika

16. “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.”

— Mika

17. “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.”

— Mika

18. “When you’re not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.”

— Mika

19. “I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.”

— Mika

20. “I am terrible at relationships.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

22. “The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.”

— Mika

23. “Did you know, I’m still in love with this blue sky until forever and ever, eternally.”

— Mika

24. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

26. “I’m not interested in what they have to say. I’m only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.”

— Mika

27. “So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.”

— Mika

28. “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.”

— Mika

29. “No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.”

— Mika

30. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

32. “I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

34. “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.”

— Mika

35. “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.”

— Mika

36. “Never trust a man in red trousers.”

— Mika

37. “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.”

— Mika

38. “Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn’t call me back, but two years later it’s come full circle.”

— Mika

39. “My relationship with my mother is not cute.”

— Mika

40. “I don’t know where my father is from. I just don’t. He’s lived in so many countries.”

— Mika

41. “I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

44. “I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.”

— Mika

45. “A decision once taken brings peace to a man’s mind and eases his soul.”

— Mika

46. “My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn’t into the whole junior thing.”

— Mika

47. “The music industry doesn’t exist the way it used to. You’ll never have another star like the stars of the ’90s.”

— Mika

48. “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.”

— Mika

49. “You never know which gig is going to be your last.”

— Mika

50. “I love collaborating with strong women.”

— Mika