Zitat des Tages von Shawn Mendes:
As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.
I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.
There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.
Ryan Tedder is just a beast.
Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
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'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.
No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing onstage, or fun can be sitting in a room with three of your best friends talking for two hours.
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.
I'm not a rapper.
Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.
I can't believe how fast things have happened, and I'm just so honored that people are able to look to me as a leader.
There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
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 can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
I don't really look into the past too much.
I really like brunettes.
It's amazing having so many people care so much about what I'm doing.
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 like funny girls.
I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids.
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.
From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me.
I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
Someone was like, 'If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.' And I was like, 'Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.'
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.
As I'm growing, so is my music.
I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.