"Mistaken for a whore"?

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

It's a curious line, isn't it? Especially later when he says,

I changed my name
I went insane

What does he mean??

I guess I look at that a bit less literally/autobiographically. While he probably does literally mean, changing from Fleetwood Mac to solo (name); from pop to weird (insane), I read it -- metaphorically -- as losing his sense of himself.