Chris Brown has been avoiding talking to the media for about a year now and he has broken his silence with an interviewwith Prestige Hong Kong. He discusses the development of his music, passion for painting, acting, the Internet and charity.
An excerpt from the interview:
What do you want the world to know about who you are? “As a 23-year-old young entertainer, I want the world to see my art and hopefully be inspired by it, promote positivity with what I do now – with painting, with fashion, with directing, with creativity as far as videos and cinema. I want to have people admire that and hopefully have people follow in my footsteps.”
What are you having the most fun at right now? “Honestly, my day-to-day life is the most fun right now because I get a chance to not focus on “the artist” Chris Brown. Going through the regular things, like going to the grocery store. I’m also running a label right now, so I have different artists, four or five different acts, shooting videos that I’m directing and coming together.”
Do you ever get time off? “I kind of have that luxury of being able to hand off my schedule and say, “I need a day off. I don’t want to do this, let’s cancel, reschedule.” I’m more of a CEO with my team. My days off, I hang out with my homeboys and play basketball. I paint, go to parties, listen to music, dance. I just bought a bike, so I like to ride. The cardio is good. Just to ride on the street on the bike, beating the traffic.”
Your music range is amazing. So many different genres. That’s kind of been your MO from the beginning, right? “Definitely with Fortune that’s the direction I wanted to go, but even with the F.A.M.E. album. What I wanted to do was not set the bar with a certain kind of style. I didn’t want people to say. “He’s just R&B.” What evokes the set of emotions from you is what I try to bring out…whatever flows, whatever I feel, I just write.”
Tell me about your painting. “I’ve been painting secretly since I was a kid. A lot of people didn’t know that it was my hobby. …I finally got people to recognize it and I did a couple of art galleries – one in LA and one in New York – and I sold four out of my seven paintings. You know, I’m new. But my feet are in the water and that’s all it takes. I don’t think I want to conquer painting. It’s just something I love to do.”
Something that seems to be more on the quiet side is your charity work, like St Jude’s Children’s Hospital and Best Buddies. “I’ve been involved with [those] since I was 15, 16. It’s not about recognition, because that’s not what satisfies me…I do it from the heart. When I go on TV and do my videos, that’s the artist Chris Brown. But when I go and do [charity work] it’s just me – it’s just Christopher.”
Is there something that fans would be surprised to learn about you? “Just how involved I am with everything. I think a lot of people, a lot of artists, they get the glamour and glitz and everything else is already set for them… Being the CEO. A real businessman at 23. That’s what I want to show my audience. The generation that we’re in – we’re a lazy generation. The kids in my generation are not as hyper. The work ethic isn’t there. The attention span is short. But I think if they can see me do it at 23 and have all this stuff going on – and still have fun while I’m doing it – who’s to say they can’t?
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