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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.
Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
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.
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
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.
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.
So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.
I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.
In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.
I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
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)!
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 certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.
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.
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.
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.
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
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.
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!
I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.
Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.
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.
Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn't call me back, but two years later it's come full circle.
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.
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.
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.
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.