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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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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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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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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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 write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
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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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My relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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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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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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