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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references it was all about being naive.
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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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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 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 my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
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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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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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