146 Quotes by Mika

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

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

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.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.