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" Singing kind of came out of nowhere. "
Shawn Mendes
Came
Singing
Out
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" I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer. "
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" 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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" John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music. "
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" At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online. "
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" I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong. "
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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's hard for me to just say, 'Wow, this is amazing - I'm famous. I'm living the dream.' I sit there and think, 'I'm scared - this can go away tomorrow.' My dad always says that I'm a tortured soul because I'm never pleased; I never feel like I deserve what I've achieved. "
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" People made fun of my skinny legs. "
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" I'm always wanting to spread as much positivity as possible, so I really try to keep that the case with my fans and with the campaigns that I do. "
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" No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater. "
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" I believe vitamin C can fix everything. "
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" Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs. "
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" 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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Five
Say
Because
" 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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Time
Wait
You
" 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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" I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV - your life is crazy. But that's your career, not you. "
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Time
" I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to. "
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Think
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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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Age
Life
" There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that. "
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Media
" Honestly, the more things start to get bigger and better, the more I am just inspired to work harder and put my music out there and make better music and keep everything going. "
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" 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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" I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It's a great place to be. It's like you are in a little bit of a dream world. "
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" Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city. "
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" During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart. "
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