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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

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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.
Plastic
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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 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 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 fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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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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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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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
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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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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 about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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