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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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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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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 was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
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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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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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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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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