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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
Anarchic
Disarming
Melody
More quotes by 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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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.
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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.
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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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