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.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.