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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
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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Dangerous
Bits
Often
Place
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York

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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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 was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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 think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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 write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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'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'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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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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 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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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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