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Very few of us were able to keep our New Year’s resolution anywhere past February, but Chris Brown isn’t just anybody. 

When the ball dropped into the New Year, Chris Brown’s camp announced that CB would not be breezing through any interviews in the year 2012, and they really were not joking around!

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Save for a couple of quick Q&As alongside Ron English when the pair collaborated on a collection, Breezy has followed through on his promise to remain mum when it comes to interviews, even amidst the confusion that is his love triangle between Karrueche and Rihanna. 

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Now, on the brink of the holiday season and just in time for a new year, Chris Brown has made a return to print for a tidy interview with Prestige Magazine of Hong Kong and a high-fashion spread to match. 

Check out some excerpts from the carefully crafted interview below: 

Where he is having the most fun 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.

On his love for painting: 

I’ve been painting secretly since I was a kid. A lot of people didn’t know that it was my hobby. I focused on doing the bad stuff at first with graffiti and vandalizing as a kid. But as you get older, you start studying art books and sketchbooks in the libraries. I started getting better, like maybe three or four years ago. I met Ron English and Kid Zoom [Ian Strange] and they were just teaching me different techniques for painting. So my art started growing and I started doing it on my own. 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.

On his best acting scene: 

Learning from different people. But I can definitely say one of my favorite movies is the one I just did – Battle of the Year. I had a crying scene. Most of the guys on the set were goofballs. Everyone was like 23 or younger. So they were sitting around and laughing the whole time the camera was not on them and they were trying to make you laugh the whole time. 

The article is pretty cut and dry and focuses solely on CB’s career and nothing of his personal life; impeccable branding considering the media hoopla that has been surrounding his relationships as of late. 

And, although he didn’t mention Rihanna even once in the article, Rihanna did happen to like every single photo from the spread on instagram last night.

Check out the spread in the gallery above and be sure to head over to Prestige to learn more about Chris Brown, the artist.

SOURCE: Prestige