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I think if you’re creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

Shawn Mendes

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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Age Company Life Myself Writing
It’s extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can… I think it’s important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.
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Happiness Important Myself Positive Possible Thinking Voice
My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
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Fun Joke Myself Social Media
You have to work the crowd.
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Control People Work Yourself
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.’
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Age Family Goodness Himself Love Music Myself Parents Song Stars
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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Challenge Easy Feeling Learning Love Myself Song Way Writing
I think if you’re creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.
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Artist Creation Love Music Myself Thinking
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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Bad Myself Person Right Sound Wasted Time Way
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.
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Family Food Mom Myself Night Phone
I’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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Kind Learning Myself Style Voice
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
It’s amazing having so many people care so much about what I’m doing.
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Care Myself People
I’m always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
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Care Goodness Myself Thinking Upset
I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they’re doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.
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Effort Myself People Social Media
I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.
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Attitude Comfortable Feeling Myself
So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I’ve written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.
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Different Emotion Expression Myself Reality Song Writing

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