Justin Bieber is EVERYWHERE. He's on your radio, your TV, your Internet, all OVER MTV.com — watch a sneak peek of his MTV.com live performance here — and now he's on the cover of the latest issue of Billboard. And the kid gloves are pretty much coming off, as Bieber himself confronts the haters and the smack-talkers who've had the nerve to speculate that Bieber fever's gonna break once Justin hits puberty.
“There’s more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off,” Justin told Billboard. “People say, ‘Oh, people just like him because he’s pretty.’ Or the funniest one: ‘When he goes through puberty, he’s not going to be a good singer anymore. How does that make sense when we’ve seen people like Michael Jackson and Usher and Justin Timberlake and all these famous singers do it?”
+ Justin Bieber's issue of Billboard is out Monday, March 22.