Shawn Mendes

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

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.

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.

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

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.

You have to work the crowd.

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 work out every day.

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

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.

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.