Chris Brown
I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.Collection: Inspirational
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.Collection: Trust
When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.Collection: Christmas
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.Collection: Imagination
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.Collection: Mom
Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.Collection: Dreams
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.Collection: Amazing
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.Collection: Mom
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.Collection: Cool
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.Collection: Art
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.Collection: Mom
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.Collection: Home
I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.Collection: Respect
Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.
I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.
I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.
I started when I was about 11, singing.
I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!
With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.
I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got.
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.Collection: Wise
You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetimeCollection: Moments
Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.Collection: Hurt
I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect.Collection: Hate
So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.Collection: Gratitude
I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.Collection: Mistake
To be the best you have to beat the bestCollection: Being The Best
Jesus didn't die on the cross to BLESS our life, He did it to CHANGE our life.Collection: Jesus
You are my greatest gift and I seal it with a kiss.Collection: Love
One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that’s not true. Love is something I am still learning. It’s just an obstacle that I haven’t yet mastered. I think that’s my biggest hurdle in life.Collection: Love Life
Wave to the haters like nanananana.Collection: Hate
A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.Collection: Men
There's never a right time to say goodbye.Collection: Goodbye
I love it when you talk that sh-t.Collection: Hate
People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity.Collection: Mistake
I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.Collection: Thinking
Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.Collection: Insanity
A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said I made it. Everybody knows who you are now. At that point everything in my life was flawless… I was just overwhelmed, I was happy, I was successful as an artist. I think I was in cruise control – like a little bit of bliss.Collection: Successful
It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The MusicCollection: Jobs
I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first woman I saw in the room and just getting on my knees holding her hand just singing. And I was like, you know what, I got to just sell it. I remember that day they were like, yo we want to sign you. [After] I went into the bathroom, I started crying, [and] I called my mom. I was like momma – I did it.Collection: Mom