Gallery: Justin Bieber in ‘Vanity Fair’

I'm crazy, I’m nuts… Just the way my brain works. I’m not normal. I think differently; my mind is always racing. I’m just … nuts.

But, you know, my sanity is important, too. Even if I’m angry, I’ll just put a smile on my face and fake it. I don’t often fake it; what’s me is me….I know I have to give up a lot of myself, or a lot of a private life.’

I know I’m not going to make a lifechanging bad decision, as some people have.

"I just turn over all night and think. My mind races. I think about all the things I didn't have time to think about during the day - like family and God and things that should be more important but you don't have time to think about, because you just get caught up [in everything else] during the day."

He was so broad, everybody loved him, and that’s what my goal is—to basically make people happy, to inspire them, and to have everyone root for me.”

"For younger guys, it’s like [they think] they’re not cool if they come to my concert. That’ll [change], I think; it’ll happen, maybe when I’m 18. But meanwhile all their girlfriends are coming to watch me."