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Mika [1983-0] British

Rank: 102
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Mika, stylised as MIKA, is a British singer and songwriter.
After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday, Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.	Music	101
I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.		102
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.		103
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.		104
The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.		105
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?		106
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.		107
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.		108
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.		109
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.		110
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.		111
I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.		112
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.		113
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.		114
I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.		115
You can't deny your limitations.		116
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.		117
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.		118
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.		119
I was born out of classical music.		120
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.		121
I am terrible at relationships.		122
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.		123
I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.		124
I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.		125
Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!		126
You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.		201
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.		202
Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.	Intelligence	203
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.		204
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.		205
When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.		206
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.		207
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.		208
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.		209
Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.		210
I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.		211
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.		212
Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.		213
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.		214
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.		215
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.		216
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!		217
My relationship with my mother is not cute.		218
I'm dangerously generous.		219
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.		220
The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.		221
I am very suspicious of people.		222
A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.		223
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.		224
Hype is scary.		225
I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.		226
Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.		301
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.		302
I collect toys.		303
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.		304
Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.		305
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.		306
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.		307
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.		308
In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.		309
Everything I write is about me.		310
I lack trust in others.		311
I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.		312
Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.		313
You never know which gig is going to be your last.		314
I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.		315
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.		316
I've never, ever labeled myself.		317
I love collaborating with strong women.		318
I am totally unapologetic about pop music.		319
My life isn't tabloid-friendly.		320
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.		321
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.		322
Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.		323
I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.		324
Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.		325
I want to make big-sounding pop records.		326
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.		401
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.		402

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