EDGE

I really enjoyed working with Rey Mysterio when we were up against Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit and The Guerreros.

I read to my kids every night.

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it's a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don't know.

From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.

When I was a kid, I said this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a wrestler.

I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

I did those two TV matches in WCW against Kevin Sullivan and Meng, and within five minutes of walking into that locker room, I was like, 'I don't want to be here.' I could tell this is not the place for me. And the dream was still WWF and getting there.

I think WrestleMania 17, everything's subjective, but if it's me, that's the best card and the best pay-per-view ever and just because of the totality of it. From opening match to last match, everything delivered.

The way I look at it is I had to retire as world champion with my last match at WrestleMania.

I'm the Rated-R Superstar. I do what I want when I want.

The only time I have exchanged gear with someone was with The Undertaker at WrestleMania 24. I gave him my kick-pads and my tights from that, and I got his gloves. It is pretty cool. I am glad I got that memory.

I can't physically put someone over, but I can feel very confident in my ability to tell a story through a promo.

One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

I don't consider myself this amazing thespian.

A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

Do I know A.J. Styles and I could have an amazing match? Seth Rollins and I could tear it down and have a classic? Yeah, if it were me at 35, not me at 45. And not me at 45 not having stepped in a ring for eight years.

Wrestling is a very demanding thing. But you're also your own manager. You book your own rental cars, you book your own hotels. You carry your own bags. Your day begins as soon as you wake up, and it ends when you get to bed.

I liked The Trickster because he was The Flash's Joker. I liked Solomon Grundy, too.

I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, 'Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can't you?' I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn't his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.

I am an entertainment juggernaut.

Obviously, being WWE Champion was my main goal in life, but when I started acting, the main thing I wanted to do was play a superhero or supervillain.

I had a long career that started when I was 17. I wrestled for 20 years, so people forget how long I actually wrestled for.

I own three homes. I drive a Jeep. I'm cool with that.