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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.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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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I was born out of classical music.
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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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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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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