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Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

Shawn Mendes

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
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
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 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
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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Career Feeling Love Myself Photograph Thinking
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
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’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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Kind Learning Myself Style Voice
From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
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Age Different Growth Life Person Transformation
I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
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Decision Music Myself Play Sing Summer Thinking
I’ve never had a scandal, but I don’t know if that’s so much because I’m perfect, or because people aren’t caring enough yet. Give it some time. I’ll probably be very upset, but it’s a part of the gig.
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Care Drama Myself People Perfection Time Upset
Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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Ability Natural Sing Talent
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’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
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Choice Food Greatness Myself Place
I don’t really look into the past too much.
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Myself Past
I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
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Believe Myself

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

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