Mika Quotes

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

A lot of people, they want you to be a one-hit wonder.

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

It's funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it's 100 percent of people.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.