Harry Styles Opens Up About Success, Therapy and How Billie Eilish Liberated Him Ahead of ‘Harry’s House’ Release
variety.comThania Garcia Harry Styles joined Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 ahead of the release of his highly-anticipated third studio album “Harry’s House” out this Friday (May 20).In a wide-ranging conversation conducted in the California desert, Styles detailed the “intimately made” project that he calls his “favorite album at the moment” and discusses getting to a place where his overall happiness is no longer dependent on the success of his music.The Grammy-award winner admitted he’s a perfectionist with a deep desire (and pressure) to create — something he learned to balance during what he called the “gifted” and “stolen time” of the pandemic.“For a really long time, I was terrified of what my life was if I wasn’t up here doing music, on a show, doing something.
And then you’re faced with a time when you can’t do that,” he told Lowe. “I kind of stopped for a second and looked at what I turned to listen to and what I was watching and all that kind of stuff and was like, ‘What does it actually mean to make something?
And what does it mean to me to make something as my job?'” Styles also touched on his growing appreciation for the practice of being present and opened up about what it took to truly get to know himself, citing the power of therapy and reflecting on his early success with One Direction.He said he feels “really lucky” to have had his former bandmates to lean on at the time and curtailed the topic with a sweet takeaway for the fans: “I think there is very much a respect between all of us, if we did something together.
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