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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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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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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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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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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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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'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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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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 say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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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I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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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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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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 fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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