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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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Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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More quotes by Mika
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
Mika
I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
Mika
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.
Mika
Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
Mika
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
Mika
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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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.
Mika
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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