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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.

Shawn Mendes

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It’s not just heartbreak or falling in love; there’s so many different ways to look at it.
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Choice Different Fall In Love Heart Broken Love Perspective Way Writing
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 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 think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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Emotion Greatness Myself Song Thinking
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 like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
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Dance Myself Woman
The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.
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Inspirational People Reason Success
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
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Change Myself Song Time Writing
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
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Change Myself Song Time Writing
I have a thing where if I’m not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.
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Control Destruction Feeling Myself World
You can’t get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
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Change Comfortable World Yourself
I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.
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Amateur Competition Funny Myself
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’d rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
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Better Myself Sleep Travel Way
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
I’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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Kind Learning Myself Style Voice

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