Carrot Top Quotes

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

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!

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.

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

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

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

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

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.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

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

My real name is Uzoechi Emenike.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

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.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.

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

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

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

It's easy to remember. That's part of the reason why it's never surprised me or bothered me that somebody doesn't know my real name. What's easier to remember: Danielle Fishel or Topanga? Topanga sticks with you.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'