Shawn Mendes Quotes

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Everyone has their awkward phase. I think everything passes, and that is key to remember - none of us looked like this when we were younger... Everybody grows into themselves, and you learn about yourself.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

Early youth is a baffling time.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.