Shawn Mendes is a singer and a songwriter from Canada who fell in love with music from a very young age. At the age of 14 he learned to play guitar by watching YouTube tutorial videos. And Less than a year later he started making covers of his favorite songs.
He started his career by posting six second videos of him singing popular songs with his guitar on the social video app Vine. He attracted millions of followers in just a few months and became very popular. He soon started posting his own original and many young fans fell in love with his voice. In 2014 he was signed by Island Records
But becoming famous at that age, brought some struggles that he needed to overcome. Other kids at school started bulling him, because they couldn't bear the fact that he was becoming famous so fast, so they wanted to make him feel like a joke. That he wasn't worthy of it. They tried to make him doubt himself.
"I was bullied a lot actually when i was growing up, especially cause I was a kid who played guitar and singing, but people who bully, are people who are just weak minded and kind of take their anger out on other people. And if you can get around that, you'll always be a stronger person for it, and you can kind of use that as strength in your life."
When he was at the top of his career and popularity, something inside of him just didn't feel right. Because he is a person who loves what he does so much and doesn't want to fail his fans with his performance, Shawn Mendes opened up about his struggle with anxiety.
He opened up to the world and described his struggles with his mental health in the song 'In My Blood' in which he explained in details how it feels living with that condition. He sings:
"Help me, it's like the walls are caving in, sometimes I feel like giving up, no medicine is strong enough, someone help me."
"As a performer you get very nervous, sometimes you freak out and things can become a lot for you. And there's medicine and things you can do to help and I meditate and I do a lot of things. There's a medicine called beta blockers and basically it's a very calm medicine, but what it does is it slows your heart rate down so you can be less stressed out and calm down and breathe, but nevertheless it's medicine and I want you guys to know that, for the last year I've been taking the medicine that's been slowing down my heart rate so that I can be calm on stage. I want you guys to know because I think it's important you know it's my very first day back without that medicine. If you get nervous it means you care and I care about nothing more in the world than you guys, so that's why my hands shake."
He started his career by posting six second videos of him singing popular songs with his guitar on the social video app Vine. He attracted millions of followers in just a few months and became very popular. He soon started posting his own original and many young fans fell in love with his voice. In 2014 he was signed by Island Records
But becoming famous at that age, brought some struggles that he needed to overcome. Other kids at school started bulling him, because they couldn't bear the fact that he was becoming famous so fast, so they wanted to make him feel like a joke. That he wasn't worthy of it. They tried to make him doubt himself.
"I was bullied a lot actually when i was growing up, especially cause I was a kid who played guitar and singing, but people who bully, are people who are just weak minded and kind of take their anger out on other people. And if you can get around that, you'll always be a stronger person for it, and you can kind of use that as strength in your life."
When he was at the top of his career and popularity, something inside of him just didn't feel right. Because he is a person who loves what he does so much and doesn't want to fail his fans with his performance, Shawn Mendes opened up about his struggle with anxiety.
He opened up to the world and described his struggles with his mental health in the song 'In My Blood' in which he explained in details how it feels living with that condition. He sings:
"Help me, it's like the walls are caving in, sometimes I feel like giving up, no medicine is strong enough, someone help me."
"As a performer you get very nervous, sometimes you freak out and things can become a lot for you. And there's medicine and things you can do to help and I meditate and I do a lot of things. There's a medicine called beta blockers and basically it's a very calm medicine, but what it does is it slows your heart rate down so you can be less stressed out and calm down and breathe, but nevertheless it's medicine and I want you guys to know that, for the last year I've been taking the medicine that's been slowing down my heart rate so that I can be calm on stage. I want you guys to know because I think it's important you know it's my very first day back without that medicine. If you get nervous it means you care and I care about nothing more in the world than you guys, so that's why my hands shake."
130 Shawn Mendes Quotes
1. I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It's a great place to be. It's like you are in a little bit of a dream world. Shawn Mendes
2. Love Beautiful Me You I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say. Shawn Mendes
3. You Think Say About My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it. Shawn Mendes
4. Dream Never Stop Advice You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight. Shawn Mendes
5. Relax You World Your 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. Shawn Mendes
6. Good Think Care Upset If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset. Shawn Mendes
7. Upset Bus Going Cereal 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. Shawn Mendes
8. Life Change Time You I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too. Shawn Mendes
9. Great Place Chocolate Banana During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart. Shawn Mendes
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10. People Crazy Jump Back I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care. Shawn Mendes
11. John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music. Shawn Mendes
12. There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve. Shawn Mendes
13. Love You Love Is Feel 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. Shawn Mendes
14. Me People Guitar Playing I would type in things like, 'How to play beginner songs on guitar,' and one of the first I learnt was 'Hey, Soul Sister' by Train. I taught myself these chords I didn't know the name of and slowly started to get the hang. I was obsessed with it. Shawn Mendes
15. Myself Guitar Soul Sister I believe vitamin C can fix everything. Shawn Mendes
16. Believe Everything I Believe Fix I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work. Shawn Mendes
17. Work Mind Think Dream 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. Shawn Mendes
18. Hope People World Great 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. Shawn Mendes
19. Me Today You People You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur. Shawn Mendes
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20. Cool You Know Play I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it. Shawn Mendes
21. Care Because I Care Tortured There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve. Shawn Mendes
22. Still Little Wizard Certain I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember. Shawn Mendes
23. Lion Long Remember I Can There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself. Shawn Mendes
24. Myself Me Ocean Nothing It's hard for me to just say, 'Wow, this is amazing - I'm famous. I'm living the dream.' I sit there and think, 'I'm scared - this can go away tomorrow.' My dad always says that I'm a tortured soul because I'm never pleased; I never feel like I deserve what I've achieved. Shawn Mendes
25. Me Tomorrow Soul Think As I'm growing, so is my music. Shawn Mendes
26. Music Growing No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater. Shawn Mendes
27. You Feel Matter Play There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that. Shawn Mendes
28. Social Media Media Negativity Want Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of. Shawn Mendes
29. Best Me People Think 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. Shawn Mendes
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30. Positive Happy Think Important I'm not a rapper. Shawn Mendes
31. Rapper First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a difference if I was or if I wasn't. Shawn Mendes
32. Gay Make A Difference Difference Make I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses. Shawn Mendes
33. Sleep Better Way Hotel 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. Shawn Mendes
34. Work Me Internet Fun 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. Shawn Mendes
35. Love Day You Look You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want. Shawn Mendes
36. Music You People Look 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. Shawn Mendes
37. Positive Work Time You 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. Shawn Mendes
38. Time Heart Broken Song '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. Shawn Mendes
39. Love Girl You Think 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. Shawn Mendes
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40. Myself Family Me Face 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. Shawn Mendes
41. Loved Guitar Videos Famous I've watched pretty much every Ed Sheeran video on You Tube that is possible to watch. Shawn Mendes
42. You Pretty Possible Watch 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. Shawn Mendes Me Summer Guitar Singing I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style. Shawn Mendes
43. Learning Style Voice Still I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say. Shawn Mendes
44. Growing Up Say Up Growing 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. Shawn Mendes
45. Love Music You Hate I've always been really tall and lanky. Shawn Mendes
46. Always Tall Been Really I don't want to get on stage and just be another act. Shawn Mendes
47. Want Just Stage Act I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are. Shawn Mendes
48. Age You People Treat There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life. Shawn Mendes
49. Life Me My Life Stress 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. Shawn Mendes
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50. Love Best Me Home It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational. Shawn Mendes
51. Inspirational Work Night Hard 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. Shawn Mendes
52. Myself Think Picture I Can I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way. Shawn Mendes
53. Home People Night School 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.' Shawn Mendes
54. Love Good Age Daughter I don't really look into the past too much. Shawn Mendes
55. Look Past Too Much Really I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience. Shawn Mendes
56. Experience Think Mature More 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. Shawn Mendes
57. Doing Know Go Butt 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. Shawn Mendes
58. Home You Imagination City Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol. Shawn Mendes
59. Love Girl Cool You Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs. Shawn Mendes
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60. Own My Own Songs Write I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there. Shawn Mendes
61. Love Me City Great To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash. Shawn Mendes
62. Only Concert Honest Been 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. Shawn Mendes
63. Best Friends Mood Have Fun I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous. Shawn Mendes
64. Be Happy Happy Fragrance Famous I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance. Shawn Mendes
65. Dance Like Who Dancers 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. Shawn Mendes
66. Time Busy Right Person Bad I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it. Shawn Mendes
67. Love Best Home Think 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. Shawn Mendes
68. Day Today People Stress I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place. Shawn Mendes
69. Loved Place Nashville Whole 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. Shawn Mendes
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70. Good Myself You Look I really like brunettes. Shawn Mendes
71. Like Really I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with. Shawn Mendes
72. Singing YouTube Watching Something I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking. Shawn Mendes
73. Memories Home Cooking Mom 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. Shawn Mendes
74. Life Work Day Stars I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well. Shawn Mendes
75. Me School Important High School I'll never feel like I've made it. Shawn Mendes
76. Feel Never Like Made 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. Shawn Mendes
77. Bad Acting Nervous Like I don't really like to say, 'This is where I'll be in five years,' because I truly have no idea. Shawn Mendes
78. Like Say Years Where As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting. Shawn Mendes
79. Time Down Acting Some 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. Shawn Mendes
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80. Good Time Home I Am 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. Shawn Mendes
81. Life Parents People My Life I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice. Shawn Mendes
82. Love Music You Song Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style. Shawn Mendes
83. Style Amazing Chance New 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. Shawn Mendes
84. Love Women Men Think The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality. Shawn Mendes
85. Music Focus Sexuality Should Every time I write a song my approach changes. Shawn Mendes
86. Time Song Changes Approach 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 also feel like I'm learning new ways. Shawn Mendes
87. Love Learning Time Song I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did. Shawn Mendes
88. Me School Big Handwriting Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre. Shawn Mendes
89. Me People Down Feel I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great. Shawn Mendes
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90. You Song Great Think 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. Shawn Mendes
91. Me Island Like First I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like. Shawn Mendes
92. Good Best World Sound My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity. Shawn Mendes
93. Theatre Achieve Always More John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music. Shawn Mendes
94. Funny Like I really love listening to Hozier. He's great. Shawn Mendes
95. Love Great Listening He People made fun of my skinny legs. Shawn Mendes
96. People Fun Skinny Legs I work out every day. Shawn Mendes
97. Work Day Every Day Out Manuka honey is magic. Shawn Mendes
98. Magic Honey I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me. Shawn Mendes
99. Me People Weird Remember 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. Shawn Mendes
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100. Love Me Just Growing I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable. Shawn Mendes
101. Life Age My Life Writing I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse. Shawn Mendes
102. World Feel Control Where From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life. Shawn Mendes
103. Life New Person Different 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. Shawn Mendes
104. Time People Caring Enough I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids. Shawn Mendes
105. Proud Role Model Say Model 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.' Shawn Mendes
106. Life Love Girl You 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. Shawn Mendes
107. Myself Night Dinner Mom I love acting. I would really love to act. Shawn Mendes
108. Love Acting Act Really The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason. Shawn Mendes
109. People Reason Who I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder. Shawn Mendes
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110. Fun Doing Artist Just 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. Shawn Mendes
111. Time Wait You Song 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. Shawn Mendes
112. Busy Road Creative Place It's amazing having so many people care so much about what I'm doing. Shawn Mendes
113. People Care Amazing Doing 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. Shawn Mendes
114. Always Fans Try Possible I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues. Shawn Mendes
115. Funny Because Very Which I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff. Shawn Mendes
116. Loved Acting Entertainment Stage I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have. Shawn Mendes
117. People Like Who Talented People 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. Shawn Mendes
118. People Social Media Effort Doing 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. Shawn Mendes
119. Me Know Emotions Someone There's a lot more to success than just singing. Shawn Mendes
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120. Success Singing More Just Singing kind of came out of nowhere. Shawn Mendes
121. Singing Out Nowhere Kind I have a song called 'I Don't Even Know Your Name' which I think is going to be well liked across the board. Shawn Mendes
122. Song Think Name Your 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. Shawn Mendes
123. Love Time Song Challenge 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. Shawn Mendes
124. Work Me Sometimes Know You have to work the crowd. Shawn Mendes
125. Work You Crowd I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude. Shawn Mendes
126. Attitude Feel Humour Comfortable 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. Shawn Mendes
127. Time Home Friends Problem 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. Shawn Mendes
128. Music Yourself You Grow Honestly, the more things start to get bigger and better, the more I am just inspired to work harder and put my music out there and make better music and keep everything going. Shawn Mendes
129. Work Music I Am Better 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. Shawn Mendes
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130. Me People Believe Look Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously. Shawn Mendes
131. Hard Artist Seriously Young I really think the best fragrances are ones you can wear every day. Shawn Mendes
132. Day Best You Think What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it's subtle and great to wear for any person at any time. Shawn Mendes
133. Love Time Great Fragrance I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to. Shawn Mendes
134. Think Someone Always Person 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. Shawn Mendes
135. Music Me I Am Thinking I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong. Shawn Mendes
136. You Think Name Wrong Absolutely, I never stop working on new music. Shawn Mendes
137. Music Never Stop New I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important. Shawn Mendes
138. Myself Time Happy Think From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me. Shawn Mendes
139. Day Me Inspiration Been Ryan Tedder is just a beast. Shawn Mendes
130. Beast Just Ryan It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album. Shawn Mendes*Thanks for viewing this collection of the best Shawn Mendes Quotes! Don’t forget to share them on social media with your friends and family.
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