Quotes from 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.

I come up with more ideas when I'm on the road, but I don't get to finish them. I don't get to fully flush them out because I'm so busy on the road. I'm very all over the place, but I'm definitely most creative when I'm out here.

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.

You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.

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.

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.

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.

I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.

I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.

I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.