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I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Phoenix
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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 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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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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'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
Mika
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
Mika
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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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
Mika
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 was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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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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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
Mika
