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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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Territory
Boxing
Rings
Stage
Free

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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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I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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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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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 relationship with my mother is not cute.
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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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Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.
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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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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To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
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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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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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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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In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
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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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