Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.

Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.

Is he under the influence or something?

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?