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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.
Mika
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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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More quotes by Mika
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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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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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'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 was born out of classical music.
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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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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 was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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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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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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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