Chris Robinson has broken his silence about the Black Crowes’ breakup and his brother Rich Robinson’s accusations that he wanted a larger share of the band. The singer told Billboard that he has a “heavy heart” about the situation, and that “it’s way more complicated than Rich’s public outburst.” Robinson declined to elaborate on the statement, saying:

I’m going to keep my personal, private family business personal and private, and I’ll focus on all the other things that are important. The ideas, I think, are more important than the drama. I have too much stuff going on that’s progressive and positive to dig through sordid family history and stuff. I don’t think that’s interesting at all — maybe in a tabloid kind of culture we live in, but I’ve never been part of that. I’ve never dealt with my personal, private life in a public forum, so I’m not going to drag myself though the mire now.

The Black Crowes is so much time and it’s so complicated, and then you mix family and whatever that is into it. … To me it’s just sad and it’s disappointing and it’s unfortunate that on the 25th anniversary, whether the band is working or not, that it’s not about the songs and the good times people had at those concerts.

Robinson also made it clear that the Chris Robinson Brotherhood is now his main focus, telling Billboard:

[The CRB] is my future, you know what I mean? That’s really the only way I can put it. I think it’s been leading this way for a while that the CRB is really where we all want to be and really where we want to put our collective focus. We want to see where that continues.

The singer went on to say that his newer group will continue to perform Black Crowes songs that “I’ve written and brought to the band,” before adding that “the CRB definitely has an identity of its own… I haven’t asked any Black Crowes fans to come to a CRB show to sing ‘She Talks To Angels’ to them, you know what I mean?”

As previously reported, Rich Robinson announced that the Black Crowes would be calling it quits earlier this month. The guitarist alleged that the move was a result of his brother’s efforts to take a larger share of the band from him and founding drummer Steve Gorman. Gorman then went on to confirm the reasoning during a discussion on his radio show the following day.