Shawn Mendes
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Experience
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.Collection: Positive
My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.
You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a difference if I was or if I wasn't.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
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.
I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.
Manuka honey is magic.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
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.
'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.
If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.
People made fun of my skinny legs.
To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
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.
I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.
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.
Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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.
There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
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.'
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.
My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
I like funny girls.
I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
I've always been really tall and lanky.
I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
I work out every day.
I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.
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.
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.
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.
I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.
I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
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.
Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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.