Courtesy of LordsofPain.net:
This past Thursday, Chris Jericho joined Inside The Ropes to talk about his 2013 run in WWE. Here are the highlights from the interview:
On his mindset during WWE comebacks and fear of being a nostalgia act: It’s never been a nostalgia thing for me. It’s always been the way, that I try to re-invent myself, even from week to week when you’re full time because people watch you every Monday for years and years. So if you have the same look, the same hair, the same costume, the same tights, the same moves, it gets boring. So I always try to recreate myself and reinvent what I was doing. When I came back in 2013, I didn’t really know what to expect and suddenly I was in this role where I was doing some of the best work of my career. So it’s fresh, because you’re working with new guys and I’ve obviously got a big well that I can go into if I wanna use some stuff that I’ve done before. I’m not the type of guy that looks back to the past too much. I don’t watch my own stuff, I definitely don’t have all these memories of “I did this, then I did this and then I did this” I just remember a time frame. Like I’m writing my third book right now and I’m writing about the Shawn Michaels-Jericho feud from 2008 and I don’t remember the specifics. I actually had to go online and find a timeline of some of the stuff cos I’ve never watched it because once it’s done it’s done and you move onto the next thing. So I don’t really think too much about it, I just come back, do what I do and make sure I perform at the level that I’ve set for myself and once I can’t do that then I won’t come back, at all.