Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
Mika
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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.
Songs
Behinds
Behind
Attention
Deflect
Song
Fictional
Away
Hide
Used
Older
Character
Characters
More quotes by Mika
You never know which gig is going to be your last.
Mika
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.
Mika
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
My relationship with my mother is not cute.
Mika
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
Mika
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
Mika
No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
Mika
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
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
Mika
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
Mika
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
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
Mika
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.
Mika
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
Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
Mika
I was born out of classical music.
Mika
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.
Mika
Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
Mika
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
Mika
The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
Mika
