Elias spoke with Wrestlezone’s Kevin Kellam on WKQX Radio while promoting Monday’s RAW TV taping at the AllState Arena in Chicago.
Elias spoke about building a following since arriving in WWE, and how he came to be known as ‘the living embodiment of truth’:
“I am referred to as the ‘living embodiment of truth’. I will give you the truth every time I’m out there. I’m going to be true to myself, true to the city and I won’t hold back.
It started when I was The Drifter. I was drifting from town to town, singing a different song in every city I went. That was when I was in NXT, then I found myself and where I should be here on Monday Night RAW. The reactions have been incredible all over the world, of course Chicago has had some great ones, Seattle, Buenos Aries; some of these crowds overseas are just next-level kind of energy. That’s what I’m looking for and that’s what I demand out of the audiences I perform in front of.”
Elias also spoke about his beginnings as The Drifter, saying he just wanted to get noticed in NXT and it’s been a hit since then:
“The Drifter was in NXT, and it came about because I wanted to be on the NXT shows, I wanted them to take notice of me. I had a stool and I set it up outside of the Florida shows, people were coming into the building and I sat there playing guitar, talking to people the same way I do now in front of millions of people on RAW, and the people at NXT took notice, and things just kept on going from there. They started using me there, and I’m all over the NXT road shows until I get to Monday Night RAW.”
When asked if there was any music that inspires him, Elias said there are many different genres he pulls from, but he’s very much into two country music staples at the moment:
“All genres really do inspire me, and I pull from all different genres. Right now I’m really feeling country, that might not be your style, but I go through everything; alt-rock, ‘90s rock, classic rock, blues, whatever it may be, but right now I’m really into country.
Eric Church, Chris Stapleton, those are my two guys right now.”
Check out the full interview from Wrestlezone Daily below:
