I couldn't even speak in front of a group of students when I was in high school. I could barely do that sort of thing. But once I started doing the "YES!" chant down to the ring and people would do it with me, it allowed me to feel more comfortable.

I still think most of my success came from the audience's reaction to me. It's weird when that happens but a lot of it came from what I did inside the ring.

If you would have met me when I first started wrestling - or even five, six, seven, eight years into wrestling - you wouldn't be like "This person is a dynamic personality on the screen." That would have never happened. That's something that's evolved. You just keep putting yourself out there and you keep working at that sort of thing and you can get better at it.

I think that when you look at a guy like Luke Harper you can see that he does in fact smell.

Yeah. Some people just don't understand when their facial hair starts to look ridiculous.

For me, I have to go out and people have to already like me for my promo to be good.

I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.