"Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert."

“Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.”

“The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.”

“Let somebody prove friendship which time and space cannot jolt, and then accept the love. Don't accept the love first and then find the friendship; it will never come. You have lost the game.”

“In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.”

“Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.”

“I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.”

Source : "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

“I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.”

“I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.”