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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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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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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
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My life isn't tabloid-friendly.
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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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Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
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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 fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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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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 was born out of classical music.
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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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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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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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'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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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