Shawn Mendes Quotes
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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'm writing all the time, really. It's become a little bit of a problem when I go home. Sometimes I should really go out and hang out with my friends, but what happens is I get really inspired and then just go and mess around on the computer.
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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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Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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I come up with more ideas when I'm on the road, but I don't get to finish them. I don't get to fully flush them out because I'm so busy on the road. I'm very all over the place, but I'm definitely most creative when I'm out here.
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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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Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
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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.
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I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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I don't really look into the past too much.
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I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.
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I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.
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I work out every day.
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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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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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'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 loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.
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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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I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.
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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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I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.
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It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational.
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There are tons of women's perfumes that I've smelt and been like, 'I love that. I would totally wear that,' and lots of women smell a lot of men's cologne and think the same thing about that. I think there should be no reason to put gender on it.
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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.