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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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Phoenix
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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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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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've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
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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 was born out of classical music.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
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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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