SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! Finaly, it's very difficult, maybe there's some mistakes, I did my best...
Meetings
After selling more than 8 million records in 32 countries with his other two albums, LICM (2007) and TBWKTM (2009), TOOL is his new LP. As we could see on his first single, “Celebrate”, Mika comes back plethoric, wanting everyone to dance with him.
1. What do you like most, writing song, recording or singing live? Where haven’t you sang yet and what would you like to sing? (don’t know if it makes sense XD)
Those are different thing. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. I’m not really sure who’s who yet. I would like to play at the London Royal Opera, at the Natural History Museum in London or in El Prado Museum ( a Madrid one)
2. Congratulations for your new album, TOOL, the other two LICM and TBWKTM were more childish, IMO. Making this new record, made you grown up more as an musician or as a person? Maribel 15 years old, El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz
The two of them. Because I am the same person as an artist that I am as a persona (???) I agree with you , is less childish, but it’s still full of fantasy.
3. Which are the best memories you have from your Spanish fans? In concerts, M&G, etc – Lady Meeks
My Spanish fans travel from very far away to see me play live. I try to greet them before the gig. They are always waiting to see me. I can’t explain how much it means to me. ( <3 )
4. Can you give us sneak peek of how will TOOL tour be? Will you do something as in the Imaginarium tour where you took some of your fans to dance on stage? It was great!! – Becks
The show will be completely different. Everytime I do a Tour I like to start concentrate on music, to slowly develop fresh ideas for the stage. This prevents me to not repeat the effects. My objective is to make this show as rich and stagy as the others, but I have to start from the beginning and build it.
5. After 5 years on your career, 2 successful albums, and a third on the way to success, what do you feel more proud of? - Queenie
I don’t use to feel proud. And if I do it lasts just hafl-an-hour. Pride (I thing he means feel proud of) is like a cheap beer. It’s incredibly addictive and destructive.
6. Hi Mika!! Besides music, which are your hobbies? How do you spend our spare time? Nice to talk to you – Eva
Who cares??!! Do you really wanna know that I like to walk my dog, cook yunk food??!! (or a rubbish food, don’t know if he speaks of how bad he cooks XD)
7. I love how you’re trained ( like educated, that he knows a lot about) in all senses, specially musically. How did your parents do to keep you motivated in music? I had run off my resources with my children, that, otherwise, they like to dance like crazy with your songs ( I HATE THIS QUESTION XD IT’S TOO COMPLICATED, sorry if there’s any on you who made it, but OMG LOL)
I had no option because I was expelled from school. I had a very hard Russian teacher who taught me to sing while I wasn’t at school, for 10 months. I got jobs very quickly. My family didn’t had much money and I realized that I could live doing something that made me feel I worth something.
8. Hi, we know this three albums from your discography but, do you have any other song or record previous to those?
Yes, I do have others songs I wrote before, but they didn’t become completed to make sense, thing that I need to make an album. I made a burial for those songs, we prayed, got drunk at the after bural party and go on with our lives.
9. Hi, welcome to Spain again. I know you can speak a lot of languages, when a single in Spanish? Good luck with your new album.
If I found the right person to write It, there’s a chance. I’ll never say never. Find the right song writer is like finding a partner, but not only for one night (naughty)
10. Amazing the choirs in the first song TOOL, it was your idea or the producer? JR
My own creation. In fact they told me it was crazy. It took me a year and a half to finish it. And I had lost friends in the process.
11. The Origin of love, are you in love? Of what? whom?
Not your business
12. Do you ever thought about writing a musical for a film or theatre? I think it would be spectacular for the magic of your songs and your sense of the theatre
I would love to make a show, but it will took me at least 5 years to do it
13. Did you enjoy your show at La Coruña this summer? Because it was amazing and you transmited a lot of energy
It was one of the greatest moments on my career. I didn’t expected that bunch of people singing my songs. It was at the same time that I was finishing the album and that energy, especially for its warmth, it was what I needed desperately and one of the reasons why I am promoting this album now.
14. I loved your first album, the second not very much. Before I’ll buy this one ( I am one of those who still buy records) I will listen to it on Spotify in case I don’t like it. This album is closer from the first one or the second?
To the first one. In intentionality and freedom.
15. Hi Mika! I think you’re a man with a spectacular voice and I love your music. I wanna know what do you think about the spanish music. Do you know bands or singers? Greetings from my daughter Vega who is one of your biggest fans
Raphael
16. Hi Mika. A song from the history of music that you’ll like to cover? Anyone. Thanks
“Nature boy”, one of the bests songs ever written
17. Hi Mika. How many times have you been in Spain in your life? I was at your gig in El Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, in 2010. I wish I could see you again live. Kisses
I had come a lot to Spain. My first concert was in Ibiza, at 5 in the morning, in Manumission. There were 10 people naked, 2 dwarfs, a dealer (I think he means the one who sales drugs, not a real camel) and my mother. Two years later, I did one at the Bar M in Ibiza, where we sold out and my team was surprised that the audience was Spanish mostly. That made me laugh.
18. Hi… I am a fan who have bought this third album and I saw you at a gig in Madrid a while ago. To come out of the closet have been bad for your career?
No, not at all. My music is my music. I am my music and I have never pretended to be something different of what I am. It wasn’t a surprise for most of my fans, but it was important for me to do it in a time of my life when I feel happy and I have confidence. I did it in the right time for me.
19. Do you have planned a Spanish tour? Thank you.
Yes, I will be in Madrid and Barcelona in November
20. Mika!! I admire your work and the way you compose!! What advice you will give to a young musician to go on in this hard world of music?
There are lots of ways to be a musician. Don’t get blind for what it can be a fast success from tv shows, sometimes is unreal, an illusion. It’s alright to be waiting till you have your chance and enjoy that moment, knowing you are prepared. He has to realize that he will have more fails than success. Success doesn’t come without fails. It’s alright, you have to recognize your limitations and if you know there are people more talented than you try to win in originality.
Goodbyes
I have to go quickly to the rehearsal of a tv show. My album is out now in Spain. If you buy it now it will be hot, it has just came out of the oven, and it will taste delicious. Hahahahaha. I made this record with a lot of love, very freely and even more madness