Shawn Mendes Quotes
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Someone was like, 'If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.' And I was like, 'Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.'
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I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
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I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.
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I can't believe how fast things have happened, and I'm just so honored that people are able to look to me as a leader.
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'Mercy,' I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl - which it sounds like it could be about a girl - but I like to picture it as 'pleading for mercy for my career' type of thing.
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I don't really look into the past too much.
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I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.
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I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.
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I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
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I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
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During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.
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Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
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Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
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I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.
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Sometimes when the song is right for that time period, it's just kinda bad to let it wait, and then when you do release it eight months down the road, it's not the same.
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No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.
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When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.
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I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.
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There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago.
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I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
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I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.
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I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
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No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing onstage, or fun can be sitting in a room with three of your best friends talking for two hours.