Top 90 Shawn Mendes Quotes

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

‘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.

I’d be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don’t have to be famous.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

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

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.

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 love acting. I would really love to act.

What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it’s subtle and great to wear for any person at any time.

I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I’ll probably be the same. I’ll still think I’m not the greatest singer I can be.

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.

You have to work the crowd.

I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.

I believe vitamin C can fix everything.

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

Sometimes when the song is right for that time period, it’s just kinda bad to let it wait, and then when you do release it eight months down the road, it’s not the same.

I’ve never had a scandal, but I don’t know if that’s so much because I’m perfect, or because people aren’t caring enough yet. Give it some time. I’ll probably be very upset, but it’s a part of the gig.

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

I don’t want to get on stage and just be another act.

I’ll never feel like I’ve made it.

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

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

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.

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

I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they’re doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.

The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.

People say to me, ‘What are you going to be doing in five years?’ The thing is, I don’t care! It’s what I’m doing today that matters.

It’s extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can… I think it’s important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.

During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.

There are tons of women’s perfumes that I’ve smelt and been like, ‘I love that. I would totally wear that,’ and lots of women smell a lot of men’s cologne and think the same thing about that. I think there should be no reason to put gender on it.

I want to graduate high school, so it’s very important to me, and I’ll be focusing hard on that as well.

I’m always wanting to spread as much positivity as possible, so I really try to keep that the case with my fans and with the campaigns that I do.

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

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.

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

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 to think of ‘Illuminate’ as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.

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.

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

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.

I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.

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.

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 haven’t really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I’m too busy and – not in a bad way – don’t want to waste my time.

I really think the best fragrances are ones you can wear every day.

I’m not a rapper.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

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

I’ve watched pretty much every Ed Sheeran video on You Tube that is possible to watch.

I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I’m going to do something wrong.

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

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

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.

There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.

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

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.

My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.

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

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships – ex-relationship, I should say.

I’m proud to say I’m a role model for kids.

My mom says I’m not allowed to move out, but I’m allowed. I said I have to FaceTime her every night to make dinner with her because I won’t be able to do it myself. So she said she’ll accept it if I do that.

I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.

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

There’s a lot more to success than just singing.

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.

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