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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'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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'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 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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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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