The NXT environment is so competitive.

Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart's in the right place.

It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

I am an entertainer by all means, and I am going to always take stages and will fall on my face with those stages without a care because I am not afraid to fail.

I was different. I wasn't like anyone else. The business has never seen the likes of me, ever, and probably never will.

I would be up until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning on nights I was facing a wall. Because when I walked into WWE, I was told I was going to be fired ten times because I'm the smallest guy around.

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

I grew up a block away from Hell, and my pop-pop was a chef in Hell's Kitchen.

Hell's Kitchen is open 24/7, and I'm cooking on the stove all day.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.

Me and Cass don't talk anymore. I wish him nothing but the best, honestly.

I've been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that's a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.

Listen: women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie, guy.

Neville is one of my favorite pros in the business.

I travel on my own and try to - I float along to music.

Kevin Owens? He couldn't rock with me. It just wouldn't happen.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I've been fortunate enough to be given the blessing by Triple H down at NXT to start coming out to the ring with a microphone in my hand.

The squared circle's no pretty place to be, and there's nothin' sweet about it.

I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know?

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

More than anything, I prided myself when it was all set and done; the faith the company had in me to have seven segments on a television show - you have to tune in to see what can happen next.

I'm hoping Big Cass gets a great singles' run and vice versa. We pull for each other in that regard.

Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Shawn Michaels, The NWO, The Invasion, the wild stories, and the Attitude Era. All the crazy stories - you love them, and you get addicted to them and the lifestyle. But you have to separate them and toe the line and separate yourself from what is real and what is not.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

Music and the WWE go hand-in-hand.

One of my favorite rappers of all time, if not my favorite rapper of all time, is Nas.

Kofi Kingston is a big sneakerhead like me, and I love wearing Jordans.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

As a writer for six years, I wrote my own TV, which, I was the only person in the WWE that could probably honestly say, since day one in NXT, they wrote their own material.

If you watching remember The Miz at the time when he was on 'Real World,' he was a character known as The Miz. He always wanted to get into sports entertainment, as did I. In a very similar likeness, I was EA All Day.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

I take that stage, and I'm the same guy backstage as I am on the stage. And you know what that guy is. That guy is a star. That guy is a champion. That guy is the guy that put '205 Live' on the map.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.

Me and Cass both hooped when we were youngsters. When I met him, he was not nearly as big as he is now. As a matter of fact, I think I was about the same size.

In wrestling, I'll lay on my back for anybody 1-2-3.