Mika People Quotations

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

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.

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

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.

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

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.

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.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

I am very suspicious of people.

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

It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.

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.