Ask Justin Bieber, and he’ll tell you he’s “crazy.”
Vanity Fair’s new lipstick- kissed cover featuring the 16-year-old pop star is on newsstands today, and is filled with loads of eye-opening Bieber tidbits, including his explanation that he is, in his own words, “nuts” — just like The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Tupac, he says.
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1. He desperately wants to be “normal,” and despite calling himself crazy, his big fear? “I don’t want to go crazy,” he confesses.
2. He’d love to take LSD before a show. But that’s a “joke,” he says.
3. Outside his dressing room, the sign reads — no joke — “Mozart.”
4. He initially didn’t want the “Justin Bieber” haircut styled by hairdresser Vanessa Price. Now he won’t let anyone else cut his hair.
5. The teen, who hails from the secluded town of Stratford, Ontario, in Canada, takes his cues from urban music: “I’m definitely influenced by Michael Jackson and Boyz II Men and people who were black artists.”
6. The “Baby” singer refuses to give in to childish tantrums. He says he pretends he’s happy all the time, even if he’s ticked off. “Even if I’m angry, I’ll just put a smile on my face and fake it,” he admits.
7. He wants you to adore him just like the young Michael Jackson. “He was so broad,” Bieber says of his idol. “That’s what my goal is . . . to have everyone root for me.”
8. In two years, boys — not just girls — will like him, he predicts. “It’ll happen,” he says, “maybe when I’m 18.”
9. He thinks girls scream because he’s cute. “If I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I’m good-looking, right?”
10. Instead of sleeping, he talks to the Almighty. When he lies awake at night, he thinks “about all the things I didn’t have time to think about during the day — like family and God.”