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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.
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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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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'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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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'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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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 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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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.
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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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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 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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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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