SHINSUKE NAKAMURA

One of the reasons to come to the WWE was to wrestle at 'WrestleMania,' but to main-event 'WrestleMania?' Wow! I live for this.

I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.

I think a wrestler can say something from fighting, from wrestling.

With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.

Moving to the United States is a huge decision.

I felt good in the ring with John Cena.

I really want to face Roman Reigns again.

There are wrestlers in Japan. I think they think they can move to WWE, but it's not so easy.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.

Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.

Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don't like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That's why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.

Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use this,' and 'I don't use this,' and, 'Please mix music with violin,' and they would make samples, and I would give my opinion, and this would go back and forth until, finally, they made 'The Rising Sun,' and I was really happy to have that.

I like to go surfing because I want to feel the ocean and experience nature, and nature fixes my balance, and this life is crazy sometimes, so it helps a wrestler's life because a wrestler's life is crazy sometimes.

Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don't regret my choice.

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that's why people call me the 'King of Strong Style.'

At 'WrestleMania,' I can show my 100 percent or more.

I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions. I put all of my emotion in my wrestling.

Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.

One of the purposes of coming to WWE was to wrestle with Daniel Bryan.

I never think about pride. I don't think about stuff like that. I just enjoy the moment of my life. I think about just trying harder and continuing to find challenges to move toward.

A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

Florida's waves are better than Japan. It's just an hour drive to the beach, but just once a week, I'm able to go to the surfing.

After match, in WWE, I do not drink alcohol. I just drink a lot of water.