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I think if you’re creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

Shawn Mendes

To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
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Concert Honesty Music Oneself
I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships – ex-relationship, I should say.
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Myself People Relationship Song
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
It’s amazing having so many people care so much about what I’m doing.
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Care Myself People
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
I really love listening to Hozier. He’s great.
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Greatness Himself Listening Love Myself
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
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’d love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.
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Love Music Myself Work
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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Learning Myself Song Writing
I’d say some of my earliest scent memories are from home – just things that were around my house, and my mom’s cooking.
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Cook Early Memories Mom Myself
I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.
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Attitude Comfortable Feeling Myself
No matter what, I’m trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing onstage, or fun can be sitting in a room with three of your best friends talking for two hours.
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Friendship Fun Myself Play Talk Try
I love acting. I would really love to act.
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Act Love Myself
I don’t really like to say, ‘This is where I’ll be in five years,’ because I truly have no idea.
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Dream Future Ideas Myself
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 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
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
If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.
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Food Myself Upset
As I’m growing, so is my music.
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Growth Music Myself
The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.
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Inspirational People Reason Success
I’d say the best scents are ones that don’t overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.
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Best Home Love Myself Nature
You have to work the crowd.
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Control People Work Yourself
There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
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Alone Fear Myself Ocean Scare
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
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Music Myself Stop Work
Definitely, it’s hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
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Artist Fame Serious Young
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

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