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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.
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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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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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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'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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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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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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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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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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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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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