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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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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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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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The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
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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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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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.
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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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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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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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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 write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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