Elle King Quotes

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.

I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.

There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

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.

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn't like it because I don't like names with 'ette' - you know, it looks like a little girl's name.