Anohni Quotes

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.

I am Killian Murphy. One day, I realised I needed a new name. I was doing 'Under Milk Wood' and had 24 hours to come up with a new one.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

I changed from 'Zoo Kid' to 'King Krule' mainly because I didn't want to be called a 'Kid' when I was 20, so I just thought I'd get rid of that alias and change it now while I'm younger. I wanted to change it quick. and 'King Krule' was the first thing that came into my head.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

My first name during my first match was 'Lena.' I was still Lena then, just because we hadn't gotten a name yet.

I'm making a fresh start. That's another reason for the name change from Lord Steven Regal to William Regal here in the WWF.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

I love change, and I love changing my hair. But it was strange to look in the mirror and think 'Who is this girl?'

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

Stop being who you were and become who you are.