Mika responds to Alan McGee rant

Mika has hit back at Alan McGee after the music mogul claimed that he should have been "shot at birth".

The former Creation Records owner made the remark last week in a rant about how Mika and other artists did not deserve their recent Brit Award nominations.

Responding to McGee in an interview with the Daily Record, Mika asked: "What does Alan McGee know about me? Why would what I do relate to him? And why would what I do deserve an opinion from someone like him?"

He continued: "I make music that comes from the circumstances I have lived with. My music is a direct result of the life I have had and continue to have. I have always done it from a very organic place that I have been very proud of and without thinking about other people's opinions.

"I am a target for certain types of people to criticise. They feel that it increases the attention and column inches they get. I'm not willing to take part in their little game or retaliate in any way except to say that I don't care.

"Let him go off and club with every supermodel in London and rest on the cool laurels that he has laid for himself like prickly thorns. He can keep that life. I'm happy with mine."

Mika is up for the 'Best British Male Solo Artist' prize at the 2010 Brits, which take place at London's Earls Court on February 16.