Top 90 Mika Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I love collaborating with strong women.”

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52. “I’m fascinated by religion, but I’m not particularly religious.”

— Mika

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

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54. “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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55. “Most people’s jobs are rooted in reality.”

— Mika

56. “Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It’s brilliant, ’cause it’s anti-snob.”

— Mika

57. “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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58. “Melody is disarming. It’s anarchic!”

— Mika

59. “Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.”

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60. “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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61. “In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.”

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62. “During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.”

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63. “My life isn’t tabloid-friendly.”

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64. “Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “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.”

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67. “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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68. “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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69. “I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.”

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70. “Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “I’m not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.”

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74. “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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75. “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.”

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76. “I am totally unapologetic about pop music.”

— Mika

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

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78. “Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I’m a Marmite artist.”

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79. “Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.”

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80. “You can’t deny your limitations.”

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

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82. “My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.”

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83. “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.”

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

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85. “Everything I write is about me.”

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86. “I want to make big-sounding pop records.”

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87. “I’m a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.”

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

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

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90. “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.”

— Mika