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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
Mika
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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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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.
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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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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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