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I really love listening to Hozier. He’s great.

Shawn Mendes

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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Career Feeling Love Myself Photograph Thinking
I don’t really look into the past too much.
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Myself Past
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
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
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
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 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
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.
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Big Deal Kind Myself Stories Writing
I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
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Dance Myself Woman
I’d love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.
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Love Music Myself Work
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 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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Feeling Life Myself Parents Wrong
I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I’ve had for as long as I can remember.
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Animal Carry Myself Remember
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
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
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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Emotion Greatness Myself Song Thinking

I really love listening to Hozier. He’s great.

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