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I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
Mika
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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.
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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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When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
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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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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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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
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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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