Mika

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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

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.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.