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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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Snob
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.
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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.
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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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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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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A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
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I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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