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I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.