I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting to think that maybe Chris Brown just isn’t all that smart.

Here he is talking to someone named… let me look here… Larry King? On something called… CNN? Is that right? Never heard of it.

When the strange old man asks Brown if he remembers beating up Rihanna, he says:

No. No, I–I don’t. It’s like, it’s crazy to me. I’m like… wow.

So he’s both a gentleman and a wordsmith.

Now Brown is setting the record straight about his previous attempt to set the record straight:

In a detailed statement to PEOPLE, the singer clarifies what he calls incorrect reports – based on a clip of an interview with Larry King airing Wednesday night – about the events with Rihanna that led to his arrest:

“There have been reports on the Internet that I didn’t remember what happened that night with Rihanna. I want to try and set things straight.

“That 30 seconds of the interview they used of me was taken from a one hour interview during which that same question was asked something like four or five times – and when you look at the entire interview you will see it is not representative of what I said.

“The first four times – or however many times it was – I gave the same answer – which was that I didn’t think it was appropriate for me to talk about what happened that night. I said it was not right for me and it really wasn’t fair to Rihanna. The fifth time – or whatever it was – I just misspoke. I was asked, ‘Do you remember doing it?’ and I said, ‘No.’

“Of course I remember what happened. Several times during the interview, my mother said that I came to her right afterwards and told her everything. But it was and still is a blur. And yes, I still can’t believe it happened because it is not me or who I am, nor is what happened like anything I have ever done before.”

Thanks for clearing that up, Whoever Actually Wrote That for Chris Brown! Of course he remembers what happened, which was and is still a blur. And it’s like wow, because that’s not him or who he is, even though he and who he is took the fists belonging to him and who he is and put them forcefully and repeatedly into the face of Rihanna and who she is.

Dear Chris Brown: You really need to go away now. There’s only one way people are going to forget about what you did and how you tried to escape responsibility for it: not seeing your dumb face saying dumb things. If you need money, learn a trade. Learn to read and write. Something.