CHRIS ON J. HOLIDAY AND "BED":
I applaud [J Holiday]. He did an incredible job on the record. It's his people that work with him that did a sucky job (a.k.a. The-Dream, who also wrote Rihanna's "Umbrella"). They told me they wrote the record for me and they sent it to me the day they wrote it for me. And I’m like, "Ok, I'm coming in to record it tomorrow."
Then they called a couple of hours later like, "Well, J. Holiday took the record," and I was like, "Well, how he take the record and you recorded it for me?" Then they tried to blame it on him, but it wasn't his fault. It was them.
But basically, I was gonna do that song. It was going to be my potential second single. But I think it's a great record for him. I've never spoke to J. Holiday though. I've never met dude. I'm a fan of his music, I'm a fan of him, I like his voice, but I've never heard any of his songs. I've only heard "Bed," which is my song! So it's kind of hard to be like, "Oh yeah, that dude hot," when you know that was your song, and you was gone sing it.
I mean, I'm not tripping over the fact; it's just funny to me. I don't have animosity towards [J Holiday], I don't hate on another artist, I don't stop another man from getting his paper. I still like the record till this day, with him singing on it. I still listen to the record.
CHRIS ON DATING FANS:
I don't mess with fans. Fans don't see me as me. I respect my fans, and I do my music, and my concerts and love my fans- but I can't date a fan. [Because] say you're an artist. You're performing, and a thousand guys talking to you [Imitates a squealing dude] "Ohmygawd! Ohmygawd!" And they acting like little kids when they see you. [It’s like] a dude coming up to you, "Ohmygawd, Ohmygawd! I love you sooo much, Ohmygawd! Can I take you out on a date?!" . . . Are you gone say yeah? You see my point? I've met girls and they've [come up to me and] and been themselves, like, "How you doin?"
It worked more than them shivering in my face and they can't get a word out when they around me. I like fans how they are, I'm just saying, I don't date a fan. I won't go with a fan. I can't sit here and say I'd put a ring on a fan's finger. Because at the end of the day, they don't see me for Chris Brown. They see me as the dude on BET. But I still love my fans.
CHRIS ON THE STATE OF R&B:
I think everybody now is more about being better than everybody. And it doesn't evoke creativity because you don't get to be yourself; you got to always try to outdo somebody. Back in the day, when there was Prince, there was Michael, Bobby Brown, Stevie Wonder, all those guys, everybody had their own lane, and it was friendly competition. Everybody was doing their own thing creatively. It wasn't like, everybody sound the same.
Nowadays everybody wanna get the same sound, wanna do the same dances in their video- "Oh, let me make a video just like Chris Brown, let me make a video like Lloyd, or let me make a video like . . ." You know what I'm saying? It isn't a lot of creativity in R&B anymore. So I just feel that we can be a lot better. I don't know when the creativity left. I just know that when I got in, it weren't there. My manager always told me, "Don't worry about none of these dudes out here, don't worry about what artists are doing, you just continue what you doing and you do what you want to do as far as you being yourself."
Source: VIBE.com
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