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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
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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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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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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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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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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