My hero is Cristiano Ronaldo.

From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me.

My dream came true when I met him.

She is just incredible.

Ed Sheeran is my inspiration for music.

“Mayer is such an incredible person to idolize,” Mendes says, “because he had an entire fan base when he was young, but now he’s 40 and all those people still love him but his music has transcended time and generations. It’s so impressive to be able to do that — to become something different without losing those people.”

He works on developing a wider audience, and that includes endless quickie interviews with local press outlets that want to know about his favorite actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), his hobbies (“I’m really into fitness”) and his solution to world poverty.