R-Truth

I was a fanatic about wrestling when I was a kid.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

Music is universal, man. I got bitten by the wrestling bug and now I just do them both.

When the opportunity is there, you have to let your creative juices start flowing and reach and grab for it.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

All the things I talk about are true, but some of them I may tweak a little bit. A lot of it is the way I feel about wrestling. When you have a character like mine, you can push the envelope and go far with some of the issues.

I'm a parent, I gotta be a super dad.

I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.

Hulk Hogan convinced me that WrestleMania was where my goals needed to be at.

Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That's Rule No. 1.

There's so many great wrestlers in this sport who could probably work circles around me and it's amazing to see that, but I love being the kind of character who can take you on a roller coaster, make you smile and laugh.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.

When you start feeling silly, you start doing silly things.

The South is where wrestling was birthed.

I leave my career totally to the creative staff and Vince McMahon. Whatever they give me to do, I'll go in headfirst and I'll just perfect it and make it happen. I'm ready for whatever they have to throw at me.

Sometime I rap for the house. Sometime I rap live.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

When I'm in the ring I've got a million people watching me weekly, looking for me to present something memorable to them.

I've been wrestling and making music for a long time.

In many ways professional wrestling is a dance.

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me and Carmella together it was like, okay, now I have something to do.

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

I've always felt that God, himself, has chosen me for his purpose, for higher callings whether it's to be an inspiration to somebody else's life, whether it's to change somebody else's life, or whether it's to be that support or light in somebody else's life.

There's certain countries that you can't get in if you've got a criminal background record. There's certain jobs in the States that you can't get because you've got a criminal background record. That follows you the rest of your life... and that's something you have to deal with the rest of your life.