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I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.

I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.

In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name. Some of them can get it, but many can't.