“John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the ma...” — Shawn Mendes Quote

John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.

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.

Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.

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.

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 immediately was captured by 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist.' It gave me a springboard into contemporary Pakistan and a dialogue between Pakistan and the rest of the world.

The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.

I sometimes feel that people become captured by social media.

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.