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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

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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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Religion

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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my 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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I was born out of classical music.
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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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You never know which gig is going to be your last.
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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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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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Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.
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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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The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
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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 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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Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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 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 quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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