Shawn Mendes quotes:

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'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.

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 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.

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

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

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

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

I work out every day.

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

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 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 permanent you can't erase me

Maybe I'm just a kid in love.

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 believe vitamin C can fix everything.

I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

I like funny girls.

I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.

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.

Live like your always trying to impress someone

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.

You don't have to be afraid because we're all the same

You told me you were happier with her but you want me to stay.