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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
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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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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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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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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'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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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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Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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I was born out of classical music.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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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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