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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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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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More quotes by Mika
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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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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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 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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!
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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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The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
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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.
Mika
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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