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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
Actor
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Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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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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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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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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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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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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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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