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I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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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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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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I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
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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'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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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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 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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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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