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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

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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.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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I was born out of classical music.
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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
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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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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