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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
Territory
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Ring
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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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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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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
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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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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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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 don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
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I was born out of classical music.
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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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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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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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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I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
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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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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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I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
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