#amusic22
“Fine Line [the song] is probably my favourite. Yeah. Usually what happens is you make it and you’re listening to it constantly, then it comes out and I listen to it once to make sure there’s no yips in the way it’s been uploaded, then it’s like I’m probably gonna stop listening to it for a while.“
-Harry on going back to listen to Fine Line after release. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
“I’m just a big believer that life is so much about the moments and especially with songs in particular, you can learn to and sometimes you don’t get the wave, and sometimes waves come and you haven’t practiced surfing. And then, every now and again a wave comes and you’ve practiced enough that you can ride the wave. And sometimes, when songs write themselves like that, it feels like okay there’s a reason why sometimes I like sit out there falling off the surfboard a bunch, and it’s like, it’s for this moment because that moment feels so… everything comes together.”
-Harry making a metaphor about making music. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
“Putting out the first single of this album was far and away the most relaxed I’ve ever felt putting anything out. I no longer feel like my overall happiness is dependant on whether a song goes here, or a song goes there.”— Harry on Zane Lowe
“Driving back, I was by myself for the whole drive back. I love driving. It’s freeing. I listened to a bunch of books because I was trying to kill time.”
-Harry on taking the 18 hour drive home from Italy. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
“[Boyfriends] Is both acknowledging my own behaviour, it’s looking at the behaviour I’ve witnessed, and it’s looking at,,, you know, I grew up with a sister. So, it’s like watching her date people, and people don’t treat each other very nicely sometimes.”—
Harry on Zane Lowe
“It’s the same thing with making an album or making a movie or something. It’s obviously easier to not do it [but] being uncomfortable with something doesn’t mean that it’s bad.”— Harry for Zane Lowe
“My instinct is usually like ‘that’s too scary so I’m probably going to say no’, but that’s also what’s fun.”
-Harry on feeling anxiety around new ventures, like Coachella. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
“As It Was is about metamorphosis and perspective change and the whole thing of like when you have that, it’s not something you have time with. And people will be like oh we’ll give you a couple more days with this moment, and you get to like say goodbye to your former self or whatever, it’s like, by the time you realize it’s already gone.”
-Harry on As It Was. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
“Obviously you want people to like your music. I also think it’s really important that it’s not where making it comes from, I think there’s a percentage of people who make something that has to not care about what people think about it.”— Harry for Zane Lowe
“As It Was, to me, is bittersweet. It’s really devastating, and it was very much written that way. I have the voice note of it being written and it’s very much — It’s a death march. You start playing it with a drum beat, it’s faster and it could work. That’s always been the fun part of music itself. It’s so interesting. A bunch of people dancing to your most devastating experience.”— Harry talking to Zane Lowe about As It Was
“You’re never going to be up here [in the industry] forever so you better find something else that makes you happy.”—
Harry on Zane Lowe
“What is so exciting and dangerous about it is that you put so much love into an industry that is so fickle. It loves you back when you’re doing well and if you’re not, you’re just out.”—
Harry on Zane Lowe
“I drove to Italy with my friend and I drove back by myself. It was like an open-ended trip […] I just stayed there for a couple of weeks by myself, and it just went so slowly. Felt much more present than I’d felt in a really long time. My stepdad passed away several years ago and he got this car before he died. He kind of started driving it around it around the U.K with my mum and they were taking a lot of road trips together. He really wanted to go to Europe and [the car] had a lot of his old CDs in it. So like, a lot of the time, I’d just put on these old CDs and just kind of jazz. [Did it get emotional just being on the drive?] It did. I felt like I did a family thing.”— Harry talking to Zane Lowe for Apple Music
“Best thing that happened to the album was when we moved into the studio, first day, when we were setting up, it was just me and Tom, we got there early. And we wrote Late Night Talking. At the first day!”—
Harry on Zane Lowe
“It’s not an easy place to get to, because it’s a world where we all just want to be loved.”— Harry acceptance from the public and coming to terms about who he is as a person on Zane Lowe
“I think that’s always been the kind of fun part about music. It’s so interesting, a bunch of people dancing to your most devastating experience.”
-Harry on people dancing to As It Was. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
Pt. 4: Harry Styles on ‘Fine Line’ by Zane Lowe & Harry Styles
Part Four of Harry‘s interview with Zane Lowe.
Pt. 3: Harry Styles on Where Home Is by Zane Lowe & Harry Styles
Part Three of Harry‘s interview with Zane Lowe.
“I think there is a moment of vulnerability that is so impossible to recreate when it’s you and an instrument feeling pathetic of whatever you feel, when you’re at your worst moment of your hangover. Like a sip of water in the morning and you’re like, man, I’m not feeling good.”
-Harry on writing a song while hungover. (12 May 2022)
viaZane Lowe
“I think if I didn’t think about it too much, I would be making music or putting out music constantly. But I’m also aware that I’m a total control freak and I want everything to be perfect. So the idea of like, ‘oh I made these four songs, I’m just gonna put out an LP, cause I made it’ it’s just not how I think of it.”— Harry talking about making music for Apple Music
