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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.
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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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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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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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'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'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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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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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