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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
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Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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I was born out of classical music.
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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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 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 don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.
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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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