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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.

Shawn Mendes

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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Emotion Greatness Myself Song Thinking
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
As I’m growing, so is my music.
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Growth Music Myself
First of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t.
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Difference Identity Myself
I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.
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Myself Obsession Sing Start
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 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
There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
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Alone Fear Myself Ocean Scare
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 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
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 have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships – ex-relationship, I should say.
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Myself People Relationship Song
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 think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
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Dream Mindset Myself Thinking Work
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
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
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
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 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
I’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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Kind Learning Myself Style Voice
I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.
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Attitude Comfortable Feeling Myself
As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.
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Act Myself Time
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
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Change Myself Song Time Writing
People say to me, ‘What are you going to be doing in five years?’ The thing is, I don’t care! It’s what I’m doing today that matters.
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Care Future People Talk
I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I’ll probably be the same. I’ll still think I’m not the greatest singer I can be.
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Future Greatness Myself Photograph Sing
If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.
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Food Myself Upset
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

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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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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