Mika
Mika
Mika is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth18 August 1983
deny limitation
You can't deny your limitations.
kings writing past
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.
the-end-of-the-day wonder ends
No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
smell labels bottles
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.
classical-music born
I was born out of classical music.
artist marmite reactions
Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.
taken school tough
I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.
obsessed plastic
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
writing
Everything I write is about me.
built category designs early months nine partners prototypes provide reference sort
We've done more than just provide the software. We've built the reference designs to sort of get the category started. We had the first prototypes about nine months ago and started working with partners early on.
buzz created ended interest level marketing mass quite reaching strategy surprised target tech
To be honest, we were quite surprised at the level of interest and buzz that was created from this. From a marketing strategy perspective, our target for this buzz was tech enthusiasts. We ended up essentially reaching the mass market.
hit mass millions thousands
To really hit the mass market...in the hundreds of thousands and the millions of customers, we have to improve.
criticisms quite tries
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
almost begging ceremony good people private putting script
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.