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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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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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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 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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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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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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