Self-Redefinition Quotes

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

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

I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself

My first name during my first match was 'Lena.' I was still Lena then, just because we hadn't gotten a name yet.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

Came from a song that I made from, like, 2012 - there was some phrase like 'Rap Monster', and I just, I thought it was so cool. But as I grow up, and as I came to America, I think it felt like too much. So I just abbreviated it to 'RM', and it could symbolize many things. It could have more spectrums to it.

I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

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.

Be willing to redefine yourself every day.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.