WOW! What an amazing accomplishment Bruno has made once again! Today, his cover for Billboard Magazine’s special 50th anniversary issue was unveiled and with it comes a new interview in which he speaks on becoming one of the biggest names in music history, fame, and things in his past.

Bruno took to his official Twitter page to express his happiness about everything and here’s what he said:

@Billboarddotcom I’ve always wanted to see my songs in the pages of your magazine… But the Cover?? WOW! Im so honored. Thank you Billboard

Check out some excerpts from the interview below & the full-size cover in the gallery.

“It’s a rare thing that happens,” he says, a packet of cigarettes and a smartphone resting by his feet, “especially in this day, where it’s real hard to sell albums. I’m traveling to places that I’ve never even heard of and there are all these people singing the songs back — and English is not even their first language. It’s like, what the hell happened?” The answer is simple: Music fans the world over have fallen in love with Bruno Mars.

“The great thing about Bruno is that you can’t put him in a box. That’s why I think people are so attracted to him and his music,” Atlantic Records chairman/COO Julie Greenwald says. “You can put him with any type of artist from any genre and it will be beautiful. He understands music.” To understand the roots of Mars’ musical education one must go back to the late ’80s when he made his onstage debut, at age 4, impersonating Elvis Presley in his parents’ 1950s-style revue on Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach. “That was it,” Mars says. “I was Elvis.”

“I’m just a mixed-up dude,” he says when asked about his genre-crossing versatility. “I want to work with the Kanyes, the Jay-Zs… a Rihanna, a Gaga, Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons. I want to do all those things. As proud as I am of “Doo-Wops,” I feel like, ‘Oh, man. People haven’t seen nothing. They don’t even know what I’m about to do,’ and that’s what I can’t wait to show the world.”

Full interview Billboard Magazine

Be sure to order YOUR copy of this very special edition of Billboard: HERE.