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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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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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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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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'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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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 born out of classical music.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
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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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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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 decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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