#and changing

Company: alright, to do that we need money, probably a bit more than you are used to spend because the cheap companies don't pay their employees well

like a heartbeat; a butterfly barely alive.

my mother says fairytales are woven of starlight and dreams like;               if I dreamt about flying enough, maybe –               if I dreamt about the blood in my mouth enough, maybe – If I dreamt about my mother enough, maybe she’d stop weaving tales made of candy floss and longing.

candy floss dissolves in the water, see my feet stain this sunset iron-red and heartache-golden.

my hair has long since tangled at the back of my neck, see and in this story, I end up seafoam; or in a witch’s garden or perhaps; with mirror-shards in my eyes.

I drive the dagger through all that has stained me with iron, in this story. I do not close my mouth or the voice caught within it, in this story.

I was watching this video about Harry’s voice and I don’t know how much the man knows about Harry outside of his music, but he had some really insightful things to say at the end of the video (emphasis mine). 

“I really like Harry Styles. I think Harry is one of the best pop/rock performers that we have right now. And he’s still so young. So, it’s like, I wonder what, like, he’ll start doing as his career continues. Because he’s already had a few, sort of, stages of his career, and he navigated all of them really, really well in a way that he’s like reinventing himself as he ages.

But is it reinvention when he just seems to be growing as a person? Because I’m a totally different person than I was when I was 18. He’s probably a totally different person than he was when he was with One Direction. And it seems less a reinvention that is this intentional image he’s trying to portray, and more him being cool with himself and letting everyone see it. I think that’s awesome. It shows that you’re really comfortable with yourself to be able to change and let your art change as you change without being too judgmental of yourself and being too scared of what other people will think of you as you change.

People will react well if you show your most authentic self. I think that’s a really hard thing to get by because it feels so vulnerable, but, it’s like, if they don’t, then who cares? They’re not your friends. They’re not your fans. You will find the people who will gravitate towards you the more you just, like, let yourself out. And I think it’s a really freeing thing as an artist [...] to just be like ‘who cares? maybe this won’t be a top ten record. But like, I’m doing this for myself and for other reasons’.

And the people who have long careers that are really successful, they’re focused on trying to express themselves and ‘I’m doing this because I love it’ and not on trying to make other people like them. That’s why I like Harry so much. Because he’s just being Harry. I think that’s rare.”