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I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

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.

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.