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Shawn Mendes Quotes

I’m not the best singer in the world; I’m just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

– Shawn Mendes

I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.

– Shawn Mendes

I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I’ve had for as long as I can remember.

– Shawn Mendes

I’m not a rapper.

– Shawn Mendes

I work out every day.

– Shawn Mendes

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.’

– Shawn Mendes

I’m always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

– Shawn Mendes

Island Records was the first record label to… acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.

– Shawn Mendes

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

– Shawn Mendes

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.

– Shawn Mendes

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.

– Shawn Mendes

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.

– Shawn Mendes

There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

– Shawn Mendes

People made fun of my skinny legs.

– Shawn Mendes

You have to be careful not to make music something you don’t want to do. Which happens. I’ve gotten off the road and been like, ‘I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.’ Six days later, I’m in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.

– Shawn Mendes

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.

– Shawn Mendes

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.

– Shawn Mendes

There are times when I’m super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it’s hitting me in the face at once, but I think what’s keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago.

– Shawn Mendes

I believe vitamin C can fix everything.

– Shawn Mendes

I don’t like age barriers. I don’t like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

– Shawn Mendes

To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.

– Shawn Mendes

As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.

– Shawn Mendes

If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.

– Shawn Mendes

I’ve always been really tall and lanky.

– Shawn Mendes

I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.

– Shawn Mendes

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.

– Shawn Mendes

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

– Shawn Mendes

Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don’t really feel like they did. Not everything was being filmed. Today, one huge mess-up, and millions are seeing it. There’s a lot more on the line nowadays. We’re so cautious and scared of messing up. It adds a lot of stress to a career.

– Shawn Mendes

I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn’t be as mature as I am.

– Shawn Mendes

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