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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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Phoenix
Arizona
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'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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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 don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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 have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
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Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
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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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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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