I’m tortured because I care. I’m always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
SHAWN MENDESI’m tortured because I care. I’m always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
SHAWN MENDESTo be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
SHAWN MENDESYou just have to play it cool. You don’t want everyone to know you’re an amateur.
SHAWN MENDESI 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 MENDESIf I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.
SHAWN MENDESBeing a sex symbol isn’t cool unless you’re in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
SHAWN MENDESI don’t really like to say, ‘This is where I’ll be in five years,’ because I truly have no idea.
SHAWN MENDESI’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.
SHAWN MENDESI 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 MENDESI 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.
SHAWN MENDESYou look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it’s timeless. That’s what I want.
SHAWN MENDESFirst of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t.
SHAWN MENDESI really like brunettes.
SHAWN MENDESI’m not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they’re super-relatable.
SHAWN MENDESMy first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
SHAWN MENDESPeople say to me, ‘What are you going to be doing in five years?’ The thing is, I don’t care! It’s what I’m doing today that matters.
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