Shawn Mendes Shows Off Killer Abs for Shirtless 'Flaunt' Cover

Shawn Mendes strips off his shirt for the hot new cover of Flaunt magazine’s “The Nocturne Issue.”

Here’s what the 18-year-old Canadian singer had to share with the mag:

On love and relationships: “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.”

On his songwriting process:” The second you start trying to write about things that other people want to hear, it’s not as honest as it should be.”

On family: “My family, growing up, all my cousins, all of us, we all spoke about how we were feeling, it wasn’t a hide your emotions type family.”

To find out what Shawn said about growing up in the public eye, head over