My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
Shawn Mendes
You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
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.
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.
You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
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.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids.
Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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.
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.
There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
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.
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
Manuka honey is magic.
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.
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.
My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
'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.
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
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.
People made fun of my skinny legs.
When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.
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.
I don't really look into the past too much.
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.'
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.
As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.
First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a difference if I was or if I wasn't.
I don't want to get on stage and just be another act.
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.
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.
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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.
I've always been really tall and lanky.
I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
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.
I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
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.
During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.
I've watched pretty much every Ed Sheeran video on You Tube that is possible to watch.
I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.
To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.
