Harry Styles is opening up about his long journey of self-discovery. The musician spoke with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about his new music, his upcoming album, and how he’s evolved as a person as he focuses on himself.
Styles spoke about figuring out his identity beyond being a musician – who he will have to be when he’s not doing music, and his new understanding of himself. “You’re never going to be up here forever, so you better find something else that makes you happy, because the best people who are truly unicorns of music are the ones who do it and then are gone,” he shared. “So you never see them anywhere else.
And eventually they’re up here enough that when they come back, it matters. And 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.” READ MORE: Harry Styles Adorably Plays With A Baby In Behind The Scenes Video For ‘As It Was’ In fact, he came face to face with this realization when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “You can’t travel, you can’t do this, you can’t go outside your house.
Suddenly you’re forced to not be this musician guy, you’re forced to be a friend and a brother and a son, and all of those things,” he recalled. “And actually feel like I kind of had a little bit of a chance to focus on that at least for a moment and just stop and kind of take in a lot of stuff and remember things.