Chris Brown is looking forward to a fresh start in 2011 after his disheartening troubles faced in 2009 when he made headlines worldwide after assaulting his girlfriend at the time, Rihanna.
In a recent interview with Page Six, which ran in last week's New York Post, Brown, 21, acknowledges that people will always associate him with the incident. However, he has learned to accept that fact and is moving on, saying that he is through with the apologies.
"People are always gonna talk, but I'm in a positive place," Brown says. "I consider myself a grown-a-- man. At the end of the day, if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I'm gonna look like a damn fool."
Brown is also the first to see the sides of those who have turned their backs on their friendship after the brutal attack.
"You can't blame people for how they want to be portrayed or if they don't want to be associated with somebody who had a particular mishap," he says. "The last two years, everybody dissed me, but my fans were so dedicated. The way I look at it is, you can't walk around mad, because then you just prove everybody right that you're an angry person."
Brown's latest album, 'F.A.M.E.' (which stands for 'Forgiving All My Enemies'), will hit stores on March 22.
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