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I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

Shawn Mendes

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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Busy Creation Ideas Myself Place Road
There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.
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Big Build Expectation Hard Life Myself
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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Emotion Greatness Myself Song Thinking
Being a sex symbol isn’t cool unless you’re in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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Girl Identity Love Sex
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
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Change Myself Song Time Writing
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 don’t like age barriers. I don’t like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.
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Age Different Limitation Myself Old People Restriction Yourself
I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn’t be as mature as I am.
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Education Exercise Goodness Music Myself Study Thinking Wisdom
I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
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Believe Myself
There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.
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Myself Negative Social Media
When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.
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Artist Fame Fun Joke Myself
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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Goodness Myself Pick Sound World
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
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Music Myself Stop Work
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.
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Hard Work Life People Social Media Stars
I work out every day.
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Exercise Myself One Liner
I work so hard to make that sure I’m successful. If you’re positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you’re doing, it’s going to happen, and it’s going to happen big time.
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Excitement Hard Inspirational Myself Positive Success Time
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I’ll probably be the same. I’ll still think I’m not the greatest singer I can be.
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Future Greatness Myself Photograph Sing
My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
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Fun Joke Myself Social Media
I really love listening to Hozier. He’s great.
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Greatness Himself Listening Love Myself
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 was one of those kids who was just always on the Internet, always on YouTube, so it was easy for me to do it. It’s not work. It’s just fun.
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Children Fun Internet Myself Oneself Work
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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Hard Work Herself Myself Night Professional
From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
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Age Different Growth Life Person Transformation
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’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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Kind Learning Myself Style Voice

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

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