Quotes About Talent

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

WWE is a global brand, and it's a global company. So, we want to have superstars from all over the world.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they're gonna say, 'Oh my God, that's Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.'

The difference between me and other talent that has left WWE is - I left the company. In most of the other situations, the company fired them or not wanting to do with business with them.

New Japan is far superior to WWE when it comes to the quality of the roster and the quality of the matches.

Even to get to NXT now - which is the bottom rung of the WWE ladder - you have to be really good just to get there. They generally don't take guys who can't wrestle.

In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.

Shinsuke - he is by far one of the best competitors in the world. It is no surprise to me that he found his way to WWE.

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.

We really do have a lot of personality in WWE. You have to, to be in this job. You showcase a lot of personality.

It was a big man's sport at one time. Maybe I had something to do with breaking that barrier and having WWE open up their eyes so they can sign younger, lighter talent.

I've got my eye on Big Cass and Enzo Amore. I think they ooze everything that it takes to be a WWE superstar. They have so much energy. Those guys and the Vaudevillains are the guys I've been tipping my cap to on the viewership side.

Regardless of the perception that the talent may have or the Superstars may have, WWE's business model is 'give the fans what they want.'

There's a huge fan base behind NXT, which is cool because that opens up the door to younger talent that maybe at one point thought that it was impossible to ever get into WWE, but now, there it is.