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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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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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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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'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'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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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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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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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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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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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 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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