Velveteen Dream

The Dream couldn't tell you the vibe in the NXT locker room, because, quite frankly, I have my own. When you are a Superstar as high up on the totem pole as The Velveteen Dream, you have those luxuries.

I can say the people you see on TV are real-life individuals, not just people playing a role, myself included.

I'm just like anyone else: I need love and water. I don't really consider myself a 'Superstar.'

I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.

Prince played a big influence on my style.

I don't believe in time.

Wrestling gave me something outside science, which was my muse before this.

I'm a very introspective individual.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

The Dream didn't need to struggle. He's homegrown talent, straight from the WWE Performance Center, trained by the best coaches in the world: Norman Smiley, who's known from coast-to-coast, Matt Bloom, head trainer, and I am protege of the one-and-only The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.

If The Dream is worried about other people's matches, how can he be a man of his word?

Funny, I think that the only reason I'm compared to Prince is because of my skin color.

I don't like the word 'fan.' Fan is short for 'fanatic.' Everyone that follows The Dream is a supporter, more or less.

Supporters - they're where the heart is. They don't need 'merch.' They don't need to show their affection by wearing a sandwich board on their bodies, logos. No, no, no... people who support The Dream are a little bit more sophisticated than that.

Evolve is an amazing promotion.