I have a bit of a platform, I have a modicum of celebrity or fame, whatever you want to call it. I’m on TV. One of the things that I have really enjoyed with the New Day and with WWE is the ability to express myself and our interests as a group through our wrestling gear.
I’ve got Spurs gear on – that’s all I care about.
If I can’t find anything good, I am just going to have to get my butt in gear and start learning how to do everything.
I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.
Not being part of the BBC with ‘Top Gear’ any more does pain me, because it’s an organisation I approve of.
Bianca Belair, she knows nobody can do it like her, nobody can do it better than her, and that also includes making my gear.
My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
I think you can tell just how much fun we’re going to have making ‘Top Gear’ with Paddy and Freddie. They’re both brilliant, natural entertainers – and their mischief mixed with the most exciting cars on the planet is sure to take the show to the next level.
During the season, I’m always locked in one gear, ready to play basketball, always keeping my guard up.
I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.
I’m not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don’t care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music – it doesn’t matter what equipment you have.
We’d become lazy with ‘Top Gear,’ doing six or seven shows a series.
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that’s the great thing about synths – you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
I’m able to show on YouTube what I’m passionate about, what I love to do and one of those things is sewing my gear.
Top Gear’ is all about the cars. We’ve got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.
I think people who watch ‘Top Gear’ think they’re the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.
My second business would have succeeded but for competitors’ jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.
Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else’s from one city to the next. You’re like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.
If ‘Castlevania’ wasn’t created next to me, and Capcom didn’t release ‘Ghouls n’ Goblins,’ then maybe there wouldn’t be any ‘Metal Gear,’ and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre.
I’m not really gadget oriented. I’m not into technology or computers. I’m not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
Sometimes I Rollerblade to work, but it’s most lovely in the park, and it’s really quite safe there. I do it quite carefully, and I wear all the gear.
We like to be involved vaguely in the creative process so we know what’s going on and we have some input, but actually, ‘Top Gear’ is at its best when the producers spring something on you and we respond naturally to it. The more you know, the less realistic your reactions.
The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It’s 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It’s a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.
Truth be told, I’m much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
No matter who you are, you must wear proper gear while driving.
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting – and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.
It’s been amazing to me every day just putting on that Team U.S.A. gear. That’s the team that I used to watch as a kid on NBA TV and now I’m a part of it! It doesn’t get much cooler than that.
If I’m not working, I usually wear my gym gear and a fresh face.
I just love music gear, I’m a total geek all around.
