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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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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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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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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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 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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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