Chris Brown Quotes

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what I wanted.

There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.