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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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Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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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Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
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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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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 think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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I was born out of classical music.
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