Q: We've seen you teasing fans on returns the last couple of years on your website, do you enjoy doing that?
A: "When I was a kid, when I got into wrestling at a very young age in the 70's… with my grandmother I didn't know anything, nobody did. You knew what was happening on TV and that was cool. It was much more of a magical experience. I think now the fact that people find things out basically at their fingertips by looking at the internet or by listening to inside news and stuff…I think it takes away from a lot of the fun and the magic of wrestling. I'm a magician, I have many secrets and tricks and when people need to know things they'll find out. It's fun to see everybody speculating, getting mad.
If you actually watched the videos, it never said October 29th, never once. I just enjoy putting some suspense and anticipation back in the business where everybody knows everything weeks before. That's not fun, I don't like that. Even if I was coming back tonight… or a year from now, I wouldn't tell anybody. When it happens, people will know and will be excited. You don't want to know what presents you are getting for Christmas. You can go and find out, open them up beforehand, but the surprise is spoiled.
Q: Recently, you published a book entitled A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, would you mind telling us a little bit about that?
A: "Well since you both read it, doing your homework, you'll know that it's one of the greatest books every written. Better than War and Peace, better than Lord of the Flies, better than Lord of the Rings! People are calling me the modern day Shakespeare. If Shakespeare were alive today they've said, he would be the modern day Chris Jericho. The book is basically the story of my journey of making it to the WWE. It's a 9-year of all the trials and tribulations both in the ring and outside of the ring. All the situations I've faced, highs and lows, life-threatening, dangerous, all that sort of stuff. I had a dream when I was very young, that I wanted to wrestle in the WWE, I didn't know how to get there but it was my dream. This is the story of all the places I went to from small time Canada, to Japan, Mexico, Germany, and all these other places until I finally made it into the WWE in 1999.
Q: In your book, you added in a foreword at the beginning to say how the Benoit in your biography is not the same man who killed his wife and son earlier this year. How did you feel when it happened? What do you think caused him to do the unthinkable?