Shawn Mendes

“Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.”

“I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.”

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

“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 form...”

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

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

“I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.”

“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 l...”

“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...”

“Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.”

“I'd say the best scents are ones that don't overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.”

“I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV - your life is crazy. But that's your career, not you.”

“'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 fo...”

“My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.”

“When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.”

“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...”

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

“There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.”

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

“Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.”