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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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Melody
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I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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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 have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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I was born out of classical music.
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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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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!
Mika
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.
Mika
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
Mika
You never know which gig is going to be your last.
Mika
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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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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 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 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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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.
Mika
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
Mika
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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.
Mika
