Wrestler

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason for Aleister Black and Bobby Lashley to collide, because the world teaches us that sometimes there is no reason or rhyme for conflict.

The whole Aleister Black character is a creation of my influences, Triple H and NXT, and everyone combined.

I watched professional wrestling at a very early age.

If I look at who I am as a person and where my interests lie, I figured that going from Tommy End to Aleister Black was almost like a possession. So, one entity to the other.

The legacy that The Undertaker has had, I can't even put into words. He changed the landscape.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn't make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

I think the outside world is more fascinated by the fact that me and my wife are competing against each other than we are ourselves.

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

I've never had like many friends, I've had a few. It's just something that's in my character, in my personality.

I only thought I'd get one arm done at first. One arm turned into the other arm. Then I started tattooing my lower arms. I remember saying, 'Mom, don't worry, I'm never going to do anything on my neck.' Then I went to my neck and my chest and my legs, and I kept on progressing from there.

I think that there are always these opponents that you circle back to that you have made some sort of legacy with and I feel Buddy Murphy is that for me.

I never get complacent with anything.

Everyone's an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.

At 15-years-old, I always wanted to do professional wrestling, and at 15, I started training as a professional wrestler. It was always the plan to become an entertainer, a sports entertainer.

Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express myself the way I wanted to express myself. To me, that is torture. I mean if people out there that do love that then more love to them, but it just wasn't for me.

I've been involved in professional wrestling since 2000 when I started training and there hasn't been one day that I haven't put everything into it.

I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work 'til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he'd get home, he'd have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide.