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.
SHAWN MENDESMy 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.
More Shawn Mendes Quotes
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I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.
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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.
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People made fun of my skinny legs.
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I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.
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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.
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I come up with more ideas when I’m on the road, but I don’t get to finish them. I don’t get to fully flush them out because I’m so busy on the road. I’m very all over the place, but I’m definitely most creative when I’m out here.
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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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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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Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
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Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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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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Definitely, it’s hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
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I’m just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it’s fine. I love them for what they are and what they were, to me.
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I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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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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