“You hear these things enough as a young boy and you actually start believing it.

Everyone did everything for me, so I never even learned the fundamentals of responsibility.”

“Honestly, everyone told me not to bring the monkey.

Justin Bieber

Everybody,” Bieber told the magazine (viaPeople).

“Everyone told me not to bring the monkey.

I was like, ‘It’s gonna be fine, guys!’

Justin Bieber stands with his pet monkey

It was the farthest thing from fine.

In Germany, that monkey’s endangered or something … but I had the papers.

I had all the right papers.

Justin Bieber poses at the Grammys

Things get twisted.”

“People are always like, ‘Why did you get a monkey?’

Monkeys are awesome.”

Justin Bieber poses with a microphone

“He still tries to imitate human speech.

He sometimes makes weird scratchy sounds which are not typical for capuchins.

That’s why we think he still tries to talk to humans.”

“He did not learn to be a monkey.”

He needed to be cared for constantly."