John Legend Quotes

Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

I'm not a pop star.

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!

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

Skylar is my first name and Astin is my middle name, and my real last name is Lipstein. When I was 15, I think my first agent just kind of did it for me. I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, but she said it was just less specific to one thing and she kind of chopped it off. But forever to my friends I will be Skylar Lipstein.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

The media named me Zeenie Babs, long long ago. I was even called Babushka.

When I started DJing, because everyone called me 'Snake' in my city first, I was like, 'DJ Snake - OK, let's go for it.' The name sucks, but it's too late now.

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

Before 'Sarkar,' I used to introduce myself as Kay Kay, the actor and then that got reduced to just Kay Kay as people realised that I am already an actor.

'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.