Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Mika - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Everything I write is about me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

I collect toys.

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

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

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

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

I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.

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!

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

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.

Live your life until love is found Or love's gonna get you down

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

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

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)!

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.

Never trust a man in red trousers

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.

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!

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

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

Did you know, I'm still in love with this blue sky until forever and ever, eternally.

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.

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.

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.

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