Mika

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

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

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I am very suspicious of people.

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I love collaborating with strong women.

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I want to make big-sounding pop records.

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Everything I write is about me.

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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

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You never know which gig is going to be your last.

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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

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Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

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

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

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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

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

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

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I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two…

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A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.

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

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I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music…

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They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think…

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We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of…

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I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just…

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When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to…

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You can't deny your limitations.

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I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

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I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.

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Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

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Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.

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You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

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“Keep it simple and focus on 4-5 simple retail/consumer small cap stocks!”

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I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

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Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write…

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Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

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

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

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