Shawn Mendes says he looked for comments from celebrities on his Instagram

Shawn Mendes gets honest about his relationship with social media.

The “Treat You Better” singer shared that he's been taking breaks from Instagram to pay less attention to outside noise.

“I feel a lot more confident about who I am and it feels really nice to release something that represents me like that,” Mendes, 26, shared in a candid conversation interview Magazine with fellow musicians John Mayerpublished on Monday, October 14th. “But sometimes I'm not sure if it's worth the effort if I'm in the conversation all the time. It's always on my mind: How will people react? I'm deleting Instagram because I'm like, 'I'm not going to read the comments and say, 'Have celebrities commented on this photo?'”

Mandes admitted that he usually downloads the app again and “I immediately check again.”

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“I have a lot of acceptance and patience for my humanity,” he shared, “but at the same time I really want to live more authentically.”

On his upcoming fifth studio album ShawnThe Grammy winner has a song called “Isn't That Enough.” When the complete work is released on November 15th, Mendes believes listeners will be able to hear his true, authentic self.

“If you ask for enough success, it will never be enough,” he said. “But I think I’ve learned that I can get enough from more places in my life.”

With the help of therapy “and the experience of being burned and frozen,” Mendes said he realized there was power in saying no.

Instead of embarking on a major tour in honor of the release of a new album, Mendes is focusing on playing a few concerts in theaters and seeing what comes next. (In July 2022, Mendes announced via Instagram that he was canceling his contract Wonder Tour “to ground myself and come back stronger.”

“When I say burnt, I mean one end of the spectrum and frozen the other,” he explained in his last interview. “I don’t do that binary black and white thing as much anymore and that allows me to move on. I developed a concept about life and the way to live and held it for six months. At some point it all fell apart because I realized it was just part of the picture, and then I basically redid it in a different way.”