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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

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
I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
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Choice Food Greatness Myself Place
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
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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Emotion Greatness Myself Song Thinking
You just have to play it cool. You don’t want everyone to know you’re an amateur.
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Beginning Cool Play Yourself
I’d love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.
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Love Music Myself Work
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’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
Someone was like, ‘If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.’ And I was like, ‘Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.’
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Acceptance Celebrity Life Love Talk Yourself
I’m proud to say I’m a role model for kids.
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Children Modeling Myself Proud Role
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
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
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.
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Care Goodness Myself Thinking Upset
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
I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.
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Feeling Myself People Talent
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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Kind Myself Right Road Song Time Wait
I’m a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
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Different Fun Myself Person See Try
I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.
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Best Home Love Myself Thinking
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
People made fun of my skinny legs.
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Appearance Body Funny People
To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
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Concert Honesty Music Oneself
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
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
I want to graduate high school, so it’s very important to me, and I’ll be focusing hard on that as well.
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Education Focus Hard Important Myself
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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Friendship Fun Myself Play Talk Try
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 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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