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I’m not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they’re super-relatable.

Shawn Mendes

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
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
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Change Myself Song Time Writing
I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.
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Attitude Comfortable Feeling Myself
You can’t get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
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Change Comfortable World Yourself
My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
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Fun Joke Myself Social Media
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 loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.
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Entertainment Fame Love Myself Performance Stage
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
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
It’s amazing having so many people care so much about what I’m doing.
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Care Myself People
I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.
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Amateur Competition Funny Myself
There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
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Alone Fear Myself Ocean Scare
I really like brunettes.
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Appearance Choice Myself Woman
I’m still a little certain I’m a wizard.
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Funny Magic Myself
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 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
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.
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Myself Negative Social Media
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
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
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 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
Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
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Best Feeling Myself People Sing Thinking
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
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
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 not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they’re super-relatable.

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