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Definitely, it’s hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.

Shawn Mendes

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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Age Choice Music Myself People
I’m proud to say I’m a role model for kids.
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Children Modeling Myself Proud Role
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 felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.
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Feeling Myself People Talent
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
There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.
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Myself Negative Social Media
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
I love Milan, and I’m not just saying that. It’s a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can’t explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
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Energy Explanation Feeling Greatness Love Myself
I really love listening to Hozier. He’s great.
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Greatness Himself Listening Love Myself
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
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song 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
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’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 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
Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.
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Excitement Force Inspirational Myself Quiet Work Hard
I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships – ex-relationship, I should say.
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Myself People Relationship Song
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
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 can’t believe how fast things have happened, and I’m just so honored that people are able to look to me as a leader.
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Believe Fast Honor Leadership Myself People Respect
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
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
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
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
I’d love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.
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Love Music Myself Work
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
My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
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Advice Dream Inspirational Myself Pursue Stop

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