Mika Net Worth

Publish date: 2024-07-22
#Quote1I 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.2There'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.3I 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.4I 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.5Some 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.6Part 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.7Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.8Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.9You never know which gig is going to be your last.10To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!11I'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.12My life isn't tabloid-friendly.13Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.14I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.15Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.16I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.17I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.18I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.19I want to make big-sounding pop records.20I'm dangerously generous.21I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.22I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.23I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.24I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.25I love collaborating with strong women.26I am totally unapologetic about pop music.27I am terrible at relationships.28I'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.29I am very suspicious of people.30I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.31I've never, ever labeled myself.32In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.33Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.34The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.35Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.36I collect toys.37I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.38I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.39I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.40I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.41My relationship with my mother is not cute.42You can't deny your limitations.43Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.44Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.45Everything I write is about me.46I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?47I 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.48Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.49I 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.50They 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.51In 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.52If 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.53I was born out of classical music.54I lack trust in others.55I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.56The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.57Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.58I 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.59I'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.60It'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.61I 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.62You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.63I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.64A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.65In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.66My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.67When 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.68New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.69The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.70As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my room, 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.71Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!72Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.73We 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.74When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.75I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.76Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.77Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.78Hype is scary.79I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.80I'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.

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