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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 have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.
Shawn Mendes
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I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.
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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.
Shawn Mendes -
I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.
Shawn Mendes -
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.
Shawn Mendes -
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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My mom says I'm not allowed to move out, but I'm allowed. I said I have to FaceTime her every night to make dinner with her because I won't be able to do it myself. So she said she'll accept it if I do that.
Shawn Mendes
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I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
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Honestly, the more things start to get bigger and better, the more I am just inspired to work harder and put my music out there and make better music and keep everything going.
Shawn Mendes -
I'd say the best scents are ones that don't overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.
Shawn Mendes -
It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album.
Shawn Mendes -
With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It's not just heartbreak or falling in love; there's so many different ways to look at it.
Shawn Mendes -
You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.
Shawn Mendes
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At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.
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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.
Shawn Mendes -
I'm tortured because I care.
Shawn Mendes -
You have to work the crowd.
Shawn Mendes -
When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.
Shawn Mendes -
No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.
Shawn Mendes
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I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
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A lot of people who are 'social media' stars aren't considered to be 'real' stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.
Shawn Mendes -
If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
Shawn Mendes -
I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'
Shawn Mendes