Justin Bieber Graces Cover Of Vanity Fair And Tells Magazine “I’m Nuts” And That He Wants To Go To Outer Space; Mother Says She Had Personal Encounter With God And Believes She And Justin Were Put On Earth To Bring Light And Inspiration

A preview (with behind-the-scene video) of the February Vanity Fair magazine featuring Justin Bieber on its cover, Bieber telling VF contributing editor Lisa Robinson “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 I think the best (musicians) are,” Bieber considering the best to be the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and Tupac. On being an uber-superstar at his young age, the Biebs says “It’s hard to really balance myself. A regular kid, if he catches the flu, he just gets to go home,” Bieber says of the challenges of trying to be a regular teenager. “But I can’t do that…. Everything is important. 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.” Robinson says that Bieber told her he want to go the moon, to outer space, but only when it is completely safe, that he hated school, and that he suffers from chronic insomnia. Robinson also speaks with Justin’s mother, Pattie Mallette, who tells her that after a personal encounter with God, she believes that she and Justin were put here on earth to bring light and inspiration to the world, but that she worries about the influences of the world of show business. “I don’t want him being a diva,” she says. His grandfather, Bruce Dale, however, disagrees with his mother, saying he never foresaw this level of fame for his grandson, adding “No. Never. He was supposed to be a hockey player.”