-That said, is your passion for wrestling still there, or has it subsided at all since you were there in 2010?
I don't know if it's subsided, but I had two dreams as a kid. One was to be in a rock n' roll band, and one was to be a wrestler. Wrestling took off first, but I still continued to play music, recording demos and writing songs.

Now that the band is taking off on such a big level, I'd be crazy not to pursue it, cos it's part of who I am. There isn't a person on the planet who can out-trivia me when it comes to metal.

It's not like I woke up one day and said "Hey, I wanna be a singer in a rock n' roll band". Yeah, I still watch wrestling as much as I can - I still love it.

It's not like it was before in 2005 when I felt like I had to get away. Fozzy's at the point now where my wrestling career was 10 years ago, where it's on the verge of going to the next level. There's a really good reputation about our band, a real good buzz about our band.

-Well you mentioned how both wrestling and music were your two ambitions as a kid. Where do you think you'd have been if music kicked off first? Do you think you'd have ended up getting into wrestling at all?
It's hard to say. Music is something you can always do in your basement or your room. I remember I used to record demos with a friend of mine in his farm-house. It's a lot easier to pursue, whereas wrestling's, I guess, a more overall commitment.

Because that was the one that worked out first, I could still continue to play music and continue to dream about it, and try and practice. You can't really set up a ring in your backyard, and mess around when you don't really know what your doing, whereas music you can always kind of dabble in it.

I would've always been a huge wrestling fan, no doubt about that. I mean, I probably would've known more about wrestling now than I do. I really don't know about wrestling trivia, I'm more of a music or pop culture guy.

Had the band taken off first, I probably wouldn't have been a wrestler, but I would've been more of a fanatic, collecting all the dolls, watching the pay-per-views, all that sorta stuff.

-You do keep your name out there in Twitter. Recently, you tweeted about people stealing moves and ideas. Was that a sarcastic dig at Kurt Angle, who did a similar thing a few months ago?
No, not really sarcastic. It was a little bit more tongue-in-cheek, maybe less serious, than Kurt was, but it is kinda funny. I think it's cool that people are influenced by some of the stuff I did, but some of the blatant, I guess rip-offs would be the word.

If I like Metallica, it's cool to write a heavy riff, but if I start playing 'Master of Puppets' and pass it off as my own, it's kinda a different thing, you know?

It seemed like there was a certain time where I'd turn Raw on every week and somebody would be doing something that was not even a Boston Crab or something, but something that's very much identified as a Chris Jericho-ism.

The more original and unique performers can be, the bigger they're gonna make it. That's just proven by the track record of the big stars in the past that have made, and that goes for music, wrestling, acting, anything like that. If you do something different, you're more apt to take it to the next level.

-Also when we spoke in June, you hadn't really started work on your next book. Has anything more been planned about it yet, or is it still in a similar place?
No, I mean, I've definitely written down 60 or 70 ideas of stories I want to write about. It's not like I blindly signed a deal for my new book. I kinda had all that stuff.

Even though it's only been four years now, there's still a lot of stuff that's happened, a lot of major stuff in my life, a lot of cool stories.

I probably could start writing it now if I wanted to, but I want to take a bit more time to live a bit more, get some more stories under my belt, and also, writing a book is a huge commitment.

-Finishing off on the subject of Fozzy, do you have any plans for a new album yet, or is the focus on touring?
No, no, we're already in the works. Rich has already written six or seven songs, and I wrote all the lyrics about three or four months ago.

Definitely when this tour's done, we'll put our noses to the grindstone and get it recorded. We want to have it out next summer, for sure, cos we want to do all the festivals next summer in Europe. There's some big tours we're going to be doing. So, it's very important to have it done and ready to go by March.

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