Quotes from Mika

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

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

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

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

Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)!

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

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.

I was born out of classical music.

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

I am very suspicious of people.

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

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.

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

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.

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.