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.

You're going to have haters no matter what you do.

I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.

WWE had years to develop and train their staff. WWE makes sure the production team got exactly what Vince McMahon was looking for and how he wanted it.

I drink a lot of beer.

When I created the Cruiserweight division in WCW, nobody called them cruiserweights in the industry at that point. That was a boxing term, not a wrestling term, but I did not want to call them junior heavyweights, light heavyweights, or anything that made them sound diminutive. I wanted it to sound special and cool.

One of the reasons wrestling works is because it allows people to suspend their disbelief. They may know it's not real, but if it's done well enough, they get sucked into it emotionally. And that's why they watch.

Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.

You can't just run through a cookie cutter press and crank out a wrestler that looks like Bill Goldberg.

I never liked D-X since they invaded WCW.

Had Fusient been successful in buying WCW, ultimately there would have been no one on that side of the equation, including me, that would have had the commitment to the business that Vince McMahon has had throughout the years.

I brought Muhammad Ali to North Korea in 1995. I tried that once. It didn't work out quite that well for me as it did for Dennis Rodman, but I brought Muhammad Ali to Pyongyang, North Korea, as part of a big wrestling event called the World Peace Festival. It was a two-day event that drew over 350,000 people.

Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, myself, and even Bill Goldberg, for crying out loud, main-eventing Wrestlemania. That is WCW's legacy.

Take the main event of WrestleMania and put it in front of 75 people, and it will dramatically affect the way everyone watching feels about it.

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years. I was like, 'Dude, you need to take that. You need to go now. Lemme give you a ride to the airport.'

I am pretty transparent how I do things.

I don't regret how I built the Cruiserweight division. Could I have done better? Sure. Absolutely. I'm sure I could have, especially with 20/20 hindsight. I just don't know of anybody that I talk to that looks back at that division and says, 'Oh, man, that sucked.'

Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you've got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people, and they're playing to large crowd, so you never really get that intimate, close and personal dialogue with them.

There's not as many passive wrestling fans as people would think. There are a lot of fans who just can't get enough, and they're almost more interested in what's going on behind the scenes and the business of wrestling then they are, necessarily, of what's going on inside of the ring.