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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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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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More quotes by Mika
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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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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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'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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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 was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
Mika
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 think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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