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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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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.
Mika
A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
Mika
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
Mika
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.
Mika
I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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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.
Mika
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.
Mika
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
Mika
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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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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.
Mika
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.
Mika
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.
Mika
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
Mika
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.
Mika
