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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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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 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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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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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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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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 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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