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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
Actor
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Phoenix
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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 was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.
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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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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
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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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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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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 fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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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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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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