![]() ![]() But I was just going to do anything to be able to just be normal at that time.” So he hid the passport, but then he ended up confessing that he hid the passport, and everyone was concerned, and they asked him if he was okay, but then he went straight back into the machine. ![]() The record label is freaking out, saying, ‘You have to do the Today show next week and you can’t find your passport.’ It takes a certain amount of days to get a new passport. He tells a story about a trip he took back to Toronto right after he signed his first recording contract, when he was still a boy and already exhausted by what success was going to ask of him: “I was working so much as this young kid that I got really sad, and I missed my friends and I missed normalcy. He is, if anything, the empathetic professional in this interaction too as he goes about trying to help me understand how he’s arrived at where he’s arrived. ![]() (“Everybody saw me sick, and it felt like no one gave a shit,” he sings on the cathartic last song on the record, “Lonely.”) He’s still so overflowing with music that he puts out Freedom, a meditative, postscript of an EP about faith, just a few weeks after Justice. He’s spent the past several months piecing together a new record, Justice, which is dense with love songs and ’80s-style anthems-interspersed with some well-intentioned, if not totally well-advised, interludes featuring the voice of Martin Luther King Jr.-that are bluntly honest about his bad past and equally optimistic about his future. He is currently renovating the house in which he will live happily with his wife. He is married to a woman-Hailey Baldwin Bieber-who cares for him like no one has ever cared for him, he says. His hair, under a Vetements hat, is long in the back he is in no particular hurry. He knows approximately what I’m asking-how he got from wherever he was to here, to becoming the man in front of me, clear-eyed on a computer screen from an undisclosed location in Los Angeles. ![]()
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