Quotes from Shawn Mendes

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

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.

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.

People made fun of my skinny legs.

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.

Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.

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

You tell me you were happier with him, but you want me to stay.

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It's not just heartbreak or falling in love; there's so many different ways to look at it.

It's amazing having so many people care so much about what I'm doing.

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.

From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me.

I think the world is becoming a place where younger and younger people can do great things, and I just hope I can inspire other young people to do the same.

I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.

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 was one of those kids who was just always on the Internet, always on YouTube, so it was easy for me to do it. It's not work. It's just fun.

I don't really like to say, 'This is where I'll be in five years,' because I truly have no idea.

I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.

I'm writing all the time, really. It's become a little bit of a problem when I go home. Sometimes I should really go out and hang out with my friends, but what happens is I get really inspired and then just go and mess around on the computer.

I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.

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.

I have a song called 'I Don't Even Know Your Name' which I think is going to be well liked across the board.

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.

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