Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
Like
Records
Indie
People
Strange
Cheesy
Told
Companies
Company
Weird
Different
Record
Even
Band
Way
Groups
Always
Wouldn

More quotes by Mika

Image
Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
Mika
Image
No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
Mika
Image
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
Mika
Image
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
Mika
Image
A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
Mika
Image
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.
Mika
Image
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
Mika
Image
You never know which gig is going to be your last.
Mika
Image
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.
Mika
Image
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
Mika
Image
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.
Mika
Image
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.
Mika
Image
Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
Mika
Image
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.
Mika
Image
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
Mika
Image
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
Mika
Image
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.
Mika
Image
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
Mika
Image
I was born out of classical music.
Mika
Image
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