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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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I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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 write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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