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Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.
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I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.
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My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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