Usher Vibe July 2008 Photos & Interview
By MIA on Jun 13, 2008 in Usher | | ||
Usher Vibe Magazine July 2008 Photos
Here are some pictures of Usher from the July 2008 issue of Vibe Magazine.Usher talked about everything, here are some excepts of his interview with the mag.
On his mother and former manager, Jonnetta Patton:
“I love my mother - she’s the only one I have,” “I decided to not fire, not get rid of, but to give [my mother] the ultimate compliment - to retire her to be a full-time grandmother. My mother and I decided to change her situation, together. There was a conversation. I didn’t write her a letter or pink-slip her.”"I hurt more than anything over these last two years when I felt my mother didn’t really embrace my situation,” “That really hurt me.”"My mother is an aggressive person,” . “She makes hard decisions, and she caused me to make a hard decision as well.”
On his wedding with Tamika Foster:
“If for some reason, I [wasn't] dealing with a situation properly, it’s not because I’m not applying the knowledge that you assume I have. It’s because I’m just learning. The one thing [my mother] taught me to do is keep my mouth shut. I probably should’ve just never [wrote the open letter]. It was never intended to be retaliatory, I just felt like I needed to say something. If I could go back, [I'd] just weather the storm.”
“Am I so much of a bad guy because I decided to get married? Am I so much of a bad guy [because once I got in the situation], I decided to stand for something, build a foundation, and think about my future?” “As a man, you would respect me for not turning my back on it. … It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men. Are you not studying the stories? Wake up! Black love is a good thing.”The swagger I possess now definitely comes from my wife,” “And my son completes me. He changes my perspective on what life is, and what matters.”
On being a superstar and a new father:
“It’s not easy for anyone to create hit after hit,” “It gets harder because I don’t want to be [in the studio]. I want to be in the house. These are the days of my son’s life, these first three years. I want to be there.”The challenge is having it all.”
Usher is kind of boring,this time around.
