There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.
When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?'
I think most of the people like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. They're pretty tall, and they can do everything.
Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Role model, as far as my kids, I try to be more like a superhero than a role model 'cause I don't want them to go through what I went through, like, growing up and stuff.
Really, I don't like roller coasters.
I've said this before, and I'll say this again: NXT is like a rock concert, roller coaster ride.
Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'
The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.
It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.
