Justin Bieber inspired by cookies

Justin Bieber turned to 'Christmas cookies' for inspiration when recording his festive album.

The Canadian singer is releasing a Christmas album this year called Under the Mistletoe. In order to pen tracks for the themed record, he thought about things which remind him of the holiday.

Justin recorded the majority of the songs in August and September, so relied on bizarre things to get him in the spirit.

"It's different, because you've gotta think Christmastime. You've gotta think, 'What's at Christmas? Mistletoe, reindeer, Santa, all these things.' And especially when it's not Christmastime, it's hard to really get your mind around it," he explained in an interview with MTV News.

"But once you get into it, like, I was really thinking it was Christmastime when I was writing this album. We had Christmas cookies [in the studio]."

Justin chose to record the holiday album because of its uplifting nature. The global sensation also wanted to put out some music before releasing the highly-anticipated follow-up to his debut studio album.

"I was going to put out my album soon anyways, and I was thinking, 'It's near Christmastime. If I'm going to release an album near Christmas, I figure maybe I'd just do a Christmas album,'' he said.

"The fans get more music, and everyone's happy.

"I just picked my favourite Christmas songs. I picked Silent Night, I picked Santa [Claus Is] Coming to Town, because everyone loves those songs. Those are classics. They get people excited for Christmas. And then, for songs that we wrote, we wanted to make enough new songs for people to hear new music and not just hear some classics. There's a lot of new stuff on there."

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