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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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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.
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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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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
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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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Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
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No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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 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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Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
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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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I was born out of classical music.
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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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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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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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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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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 obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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