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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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 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.
Mika
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
Mika
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
Mika
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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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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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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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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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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The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
Mika
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
Mika
Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
Mika
I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
Mika
Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
Mika
No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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