King Krule Quotes

People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.

When I turned 18, my agent was like, 'You should change from Ricky to Rick.' So I thought it was a good idea. Rick never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

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

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

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.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I'm still Lil Xan. You can call me Diego if you want. My second album, I'm going to be full Diego.

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

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this stage is that I have been given. The argument has been made, the battle remains to be fought - and that requires a different set of skills.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!