Chris Speaks His Mind, SERIOUSLY.
These quotes are so awesome that I had to give them their own separate page. Rarely do you ever hear Chris talk as seriously about things as he does here. I'm so glad to hear Chris seriously speak his mind, instead of being the usual jokester. Read on to get some insight on how Chris feels about certain issues, and maybe catch a glimpse of what kind of person he is.
"I think the biggest motto about the group and everything that we say is, everybody makes mistakes. You know, everybody says a cuss word now and then. Well, not everybody, but, you know most people that say they don't, do. EVERYBODY makes mistakes. Our point is, we're out to try to be good human beings, and try to set good examples. [If] we screw up, we screw up, but we don't dwell on the screw ups. We don't set out to do anything wrong. We don't set out to beat people. We don't set out to purposely do harm on anybody else. You know, we just set out to have a good time, and, you know, all five of us are very religious. You know, we all have our own different beliefs that we believe in, and we don't force that on anybody. You know, if somebody asks us, 'oh sure, you know, we're religious, we're Christian,' you know. We believe in our own thing. But, you know, [there's] nothing worse than having somebody that says, 'I'm not religious,' or 'I don't care.' You know, something like that, or than somebody that says 'they care too much.' They care so much that they're going to force you into changing who you are, or changing what you believe, or how you've come -- I mean I'm ALL down for if somebody has a problem with something -- religion, whatever -- they can come to me; I'm all open. I'll give them as much advice as I can, but for me to walk into a room and say 'Hey, how you doin? Uh, let me force something down your throat. Let me force a belief. Let me force, uh, my Republican beliefs on you. Let me force my democratic beliefs on you.' I don't get into the whole thing. I hate it when people take sides. I hate it when people have to say, 'This is what I am,' because then suddenly, this ideal, you have to believe everything that's in that ideal. Maybe I don't. So then suddenly I'm a Democrat that just doesn't believe everything a Democrat believes in? I don't get it. Why can't I just be myself? Why can't I just be... my own thing? You know, and I think that's pretty much how we all are, for the most part." -Chris (quote from RollingStone.com, July 2001)
"I feel like a lot of times that I'm, like, a man's man. You know, like, I'm like, a bunch of guys, a bunch of college guys got together and said, 'Let's make a dude. Let's make a crazy dude. What are we going to make?' and they made me. You know, I'm a die-hard football fan -- I mean, I freak out at football. You know, anytime I see football. Hockey, I love hockey. Basketball's cool; I like basketball. And it's like, 'What do I do when I go out?' I go out with my boys, we go out drinkin'. I drive a motorcycle, we use four-wheelers. You know what I mean? I mean it's just, like, really just like [*insert Tim the Tool Man grunt here*], you know, like that kind of stuff. And I mean, I was in a fraternity. You know what I'm saying? I LOVE women. I love women. But, like I said, that's just not the thing that drives me. I enjoy... I think I just enjoy people. You know I enjoy, I enjoy hanging out. I enjoy new friends, I enjoy old friends, you know, more than anything. Nothing's better. Nothing's more fun to me than having my whole crew that works for us, that works with us, over to my house for a barbeque. Because, you know, plus that's what I feel comfortable with. I grew up... in poverty. I grew up on welfare. I grew up... homeless. I grew up with all this, you know, all this stuff you would never guess a white boy in a boyband would have to ever deal with. You know, I did, and it just made me twice as a better, ten times a better person because all the stuff that comes is a luxury. I enjoy it, but I don't deserve it. I don't expect it. I don't, you know, I don't think it's all owed to me. You know, I'm just like, look. If we wouldn't have got lucky, and you know, found, I could be just writing my tunes, you know, whatever, doing my little thing... uh, hanging out, working at a grocery store, and I'd be happy." -Chris (quote from RollingStone.com, July 2001)