“My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme...” — Mika Quote

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

“I've never, ever labeled myself.”

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

“I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.”

“To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.”

“I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.”