In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself. Mika More Quotes by Mika More Quotes From Mika You never know which gig is going to be your last. Mika gigs lasts knows Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on! Mika self-confidence good-life self-esteem 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 junk pieces insane I'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. Mika doctors voice calling It'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. Mika clothes hate men If 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. Mika smell labels dolls Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)! Mika hygiene self-esteem jobs A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul. Mika taken decision men Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother. Mika clothes mother made No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day. Mika the-end-of-the-day ends wonder 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 doe people thinking Live your life until love is found Or love's gonna get you down Mika live-your-life found love-is 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. Mika matter song thinking 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. Mika dancer order moving I 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. Mika ugly faces thinking My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing. Mika dad real mother I am terrible at relationships. Mika terrible I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. Mika bows ties kids 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 cheesy people way You can't deny your limitations. Mika limitation deny