I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?
I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a 'lil' in front of his name, and that's funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
In my mind, an album shouldn't be self-titled unless it feels that way.
First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.
I was always called Payne or Payno.
Why is she Mrs. C.J. Walker? It really was a matter of her trying to insist that people respect her, because during that time, white people would call any black woman 'Sally.' 'Aunt Sally.' So this was like... you can't call me that.
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
Ant and Dec seemed a natural name for us - it was just how people referred to us, cos we were always together. I've never resented the fact that his name comes first.
Then there’s the biggest problem of them all – the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but that’s a fact and there’s nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you aren’t called Angela, you have the wrong car.
The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
I do not have Sheikh in front of my name.
