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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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 decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my 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 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 think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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 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 don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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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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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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