For me, you know, I loved the AWA because that's when I first started watching, then I watched the WWF, and when I saw Stampede that's when I really knew I can wrestle and I wanted to wrestle. I discuss in my book that when I first saw Owen Hart because he wasn't a giant, he was so acrobatic, so amazing, and plus he was in Calgary, a place that I knew about growing up in Winnipeg… I knew how to take a bus to get there and that is when I really decided that I can do this and it gave me a lot of inspiration when I first started to watch Stampede. It seems to be going that way again now too."
Q: Theoretically, of course, let's say you were returning to the ring in the near future. Would we be seeing a new Chris Jericho? What would you hang onto from the past and what would be different when it comes to moveset, persona, whatever?
A: "I've always changed things up over the years. I love the fact that I had so many different looks and so many different moves that I can draw back on. The moves that is because I spent so much time in these countries; trained in Calgary, worked in Germany, worked in Japan, worked in Mexico, and had all these different things that can draw back on. I mentioned it in A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, available in fine bookstores around you. I mentioned that I was very lucky that I had many different colors to paint my pictures with due to the many different experiences that I had. I'll always change things up. Lookwise, you're on TV 52 weeks out of the year, you gotta be different man. You can't look the same all the time, people get bored. It sounds kind of strange but I compared myself to Madonna; how she's always had a different look, a different style. It's always her but different variations of it. Basically I am the Madonna of wrestling."
Q: Well, you did cut your signature long blonde hair recently, I did notice that.
A: "I just changed my wig; I took off the long blonde hair wig and put on a different one. That's all part of it. It's one of those things, you change things up, you look different, but you still keep the things that brought you to the dance. Wrestling is show business to me. Number one, first and foremost, is being entertaining, is being a showman, it's being the party host, it's putting on an appearance that people remember. Part of that is changing things up and keeping it going. I think that it's easy to balance that. When you go see AC/DC in concert, they play some new songs and they play all the old hits that everyone loves and that's the way that I always look at things, the way that a band does things. Bruce inson from Iron Maiden cut his hair, but that doesn't make him any less of an awesome, majesty king rocker and it's the same for Jericho."
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