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I was born out of classical music.

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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.
Classical
Born
Music

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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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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'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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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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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 wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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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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