Harry Styles is on the cover of Rolling Stone‘s new issue, on newsstands September 3.
Here’s what the 25-year-old entertainer had to share with the mag…
On what to expect from his hotly anticipated second solo album, which fans have unofficially dubbed “HS2”: “It’s all about having sex and feeling sad.”
On how mushrooms have helped his creative process while recording at Shangri-La studios in Malibu (where Harry recorded some of his new album): “We’d do mushrooms, lie down on the grass, and listen to Paul McCartney’s Ram in the sunshine. We’d just turn the speakers into the yard. You’d hear the blender going, and think, ‘So we’re all having frozen margaritas at 10 a.m. this morning. This is where I was standing when we were doing mushrooms and I bit off the tip of my tongue. So I was trying to sing with all this blood gushing out of my mouth. So many fond memories, this place.”
On using LGBTQ Pride and Black Lives Matter flags during his shows: “I want to make people feel comfortable being whatever they want to be. Maybe at a show you can have a moment of knowing that you’re not alone. I’m aware that as a white male, I don’t go through the same things as a lot of the people that come to the shows. I can’t claim that I know what it’s like, because I don’t. So I’m not trying to say, ‘I understand what it’s like.’ I’m just trying to make people feel included and seen.”
On the future of One Direction: “I don’t know. I don’t think I’d ever say I’d never do it again, because I don’t feel that way. If there’s a time when we all really want to do it, that’s the only time for us to do it, because I don’t think it should be about anything else other than the fact that we’re all like, ‘Hey, this was really fun. We should do this again.’ But until that time, I feel like I’m really enjoying making music and experimenting. I enjoy making music this way too much to see myself doing a full switch, to go back and do that again. Because I also think if we went back to doing things the same way, it wouldn’t be the same, anyway.”
On his large female fandom: “They’re the most honest — especially if you’re talking about teenage girls, but older as well. They have that bullsh*t detector. You want honest people as your audience. We’re so past that dumb outdated narrative of ‘Oh, these people are girls, so they don’t know what they’re talking about.’ They’re the ones who know what they’re talking about. They’re the people who listen obsessively. They f*cking own this shit. They’re running it.”
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