Dizzee Rascal Quotes

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.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

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

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

Johnny Nitro was like Johnny Hollywood, Johnny Danger, Johnny Blaze... it's just an obvious stage, Hollywood name. But John Morrison is more like a real person.

My real, full name is Chelsea Chanel Dudley. In my opinion, Chelsea Dudley does not sound like a rapper. So I was like, 'You know what? Imma drop both of those names and just go by Chanel.'

Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce.

When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

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

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.

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!

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.