reckless behaviour

The last two years of touring, I found the routine nicer to get up and go for a run or something. I don’t like drinking when I’m working at all, even the days before. I usually have a drink when I’m out with friends, but then usually go for a month without drinking.

He orders chicken paillard and muses about going pescatarian. “I did it for two weeks as a test. I think I’ll do it at some point for a longer time.” Why does he want to do it? He’s not sure, but “a little bit of discipline is good”, he thinks.

He has brought two phones with him — one for personal use (it has a screensaver of his baby goddaughter on it) and a pink one to play me his new album. Though just 23, he is already godfather to three kids.

At certain times you write songs where you just want to tell the whole story. Like, if you write a song that’s personal to you, it’s tough to hand that over to a band.

I heard someone once say, if Twitter was a house party and you knew that 30% of everyone there was amazing and everyone else in there was really horrible to each other, you just wouldn’t go.

The last thing Harry Styles does before he goes to bed each night is send himself an email listing what he’s doing the next day. ‘Even if it’s really boring, like ‘9am: coffee’. If you have no plans, you’re at a loss sometimes. I find it difficult to drift.’