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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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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Phoenix
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
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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'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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