William Regal Quotes

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

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 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.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

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.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

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

I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg - which is my given name - when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that's when my career took off.

I followed wrestling, but I had just kind of made peace with, like, that was my career. I'm now a mom, and I'm going to find other things to do with my life.

I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai.

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

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 enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

I was meant to be an actor, and I realised that only after my son was born.