I don’t really look into the past too much.
SHAWN MENDESEd Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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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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I’d rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
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You just have to play it cool. You don’t want everyone to know you’re an amateur.
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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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Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.
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There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.
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I’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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Being a sex symbol isn’t cool unless you’re in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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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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I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
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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.
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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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It’s extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can… I think it’s important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.
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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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You have to work the crowd.
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Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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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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I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.
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I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships – ex-relationship, I should say.
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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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Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he’s changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.
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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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I really love listening to Hozier. He’s great.
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To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
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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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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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