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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
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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 relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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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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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.
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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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