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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
Mika
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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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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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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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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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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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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 don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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I was born out of classical music.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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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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!
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I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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