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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.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
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I was born out of classical music.
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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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Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
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I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.
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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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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.
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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'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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references it was all about being naive.
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