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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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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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 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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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
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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 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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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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