Shawn Mendes

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

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

I like funny girls.

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

I have a song called 'I Don't Even Know Your Name' which I think is going to be well liked across the board.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.