Top 90 Mika Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— 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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

59. “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

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

— Mika

61. “I’m obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

64. “I love collaborating with strong women.”

— Mika

65. “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.”

— Mika

66. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

69. “Melody is disarming. It’s anarchic!”

— Mika

70. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

72. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

74. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

81. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

83. “Everything I write is about me.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

86. “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.”

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika

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

— Mika