Harry Styles Shares His Insecurities About “Not Adding to the World”

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Harry Styles is reflecting on some late night talking sessions. 

Indeed, the Harry’s House singer shared a few struggles he’s had about his career over the years, including how he believes his impact in the music industry isn’t meaningful enough.   

“Something I’ve often struggled with, in the middle of a tour, is feeling like I’m not sure what I’m giving, not sure what I’m adding to the world,” Harry, 32, told Runners World in an interview published Mar. 3. “Especially when the reward system and the kind of adulation that you can receive feels so loud.”

The “Golden” star continued, “I’m getting all this energy. People are giving me so much, which I deeply appreciate. But what am I contributing? At times, I felt quite existential about that.”

Though this question has occasionally haunted him, it seems Harry found an answer while working on his upcoming album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. As he added final touches to the record, which will release on March 6, he realized his importance lies in how fans interact with his music—but not just on a melodic level. 

Overall, he wants to create a body of work that’ll make listeners think and start their own conversations.

“I think I’m of less importance. And that can be quite scary, realizing that it’s not about me,” the former One Direction member explained, “but it can also be really freeing to know my job here is to just remain a person, and to keep recording that. I think there’s freedom in realizing that actually my job is to let people watch while I ask the questions, because questions are more interesting than answers.” 

True to his words, Harry—who’s rumored to be dating Zoë Kravitz—also reassured this new sonic era (and its accompanying pricy tour) isn’t just about him, but more so “all about the fans” and creatives that helped him build the album’s sound.   

“It isn’t down to me. I can’t sell out a venue, only they can do that,” he noted. “And there’s a producer that I work with who makes me great, and everyone who works on my team. Everything that I’ve been rewarded for takes a lot of people.”

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In terms of what listeners can expect on Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally? Harry admitted his recent time in Berlin—where he ran in a 3-hour marathon in September—and its vibrant club scene inspired him to focus on making “good electronic music,” such as the bouncy production on the album’s lead single "Aperture.”  

“When you’re out at night, it’s such a community, but you’re also watching people have such individual experiences,” he expressed. “I wanted to recreate [what] I had on the dance floor, being lost in instrumentation and the musicality. It was so immersive. This is how I want to feel when I’m on stage too. I don’t want it to feel like a sermon I’m delivering. I wanted it to feel like, ‘Oh, we’re in this music together.’”

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As for what he said during the 2011 Today interview promoting his film Water for Elephants?

"One of the clowns died," he explained at the time. "His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him, seriously. Everybody ran out. It was terrifying."

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Kim Kardashian Reveals How She "Honored" Grandma MJ During Sex With Pete Davidson

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Kim Kardashian got candid about how her grandma Mary Jo "MJ" Campbell influenced one intimate moment between her and then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, during an October 2022 episode of The Kardashians.

"Pete and I were staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel last weekend, and we were sitting in front of the fireplace, just talking for hours," the SKIMS founder recounted to MJ, mom Kris Jenner and sister Khloe Kardashian. "And I was like, 'My grandma told me that you really live life when you have sex in front of the fireplace. And so, we had sex in front of the fireplace in honor of you."

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Mila Kunis Reveals Why She and Ashton Kutcher Keep Bathrooms Doors Open at Home

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"That includes the bathroom," she told E! News in September 2022. "It's just one of those where, for better or for worse, as a family and the kids have all kind of embodied bodily function as a very standard norm."

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"Pete Berg, who was the director, told him to try to kill me," Jennifer recounted of her scene with Sala Baker. “ We did not have a lot of choreography, and he told me to do anything I could to survive.”

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"We both had to change before the show and we were like, 'Oh we have to go back into the changing room,'" Hoda said during a November 2022 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna. "But then I noticed, Jenna never wears underwear."

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"I think it makes a more pretty silhouette," she said. "I also think you don't have to pack as much. There are a lot of pros to it!"

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Britney Spears Reveals She Has "No Idea" Who Pete Davidson and Scott Disick are

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Britney Spears found herself embracing Keke Palmer's viral saying "he could be walking down the street, I wouldn't know a thing," when she admitted she didn't know who Pete Davidson and Scott Disick were.

Reposting a humorous March video of Pete—who was then dating Kim Kardashian—and Kourtney Kardashian's ex Scott enjoying a "boyz night," to her Instagram, Britney said the two of them had her cracking up.

"Sorry had to repost this," Britney wrote in the since-deleted post. "no idea who these people in the video are but it made me laugh so hard !!!!"

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Jana Kramer Explains Why "Asparagus Pee" Might've Lead To A Breakup With Chris Evans

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It happened more than a decade ago, the singer revealed on her Whine Down with Jana Kramer podcast in November, and though she can't remember "how many dates it was," she does recall their last encounter.

Jana, then about 26 years old, said Chris invited her over to his house while he had friends in town from Boston.

"The last interaction that I remember is him going into the bathroom after I just went with asparagus pee," Jana remembered, referencing the veggie's tendency to give urine a very distinct scent. "We didn't hook up that night. He stayed up late with his friends and then [in] the morning I did the asparagus walk of shame out of his house."

She added, "I never heard from him again."

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Former Grey's Anatomy Writer Elisabeth Finch Reveals She Lied About Having Cancer

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Eight years after sharing in an ELLE article that she had been battling a rare type of bone cancer—her fake diagnosis even inspiring a storyline on Grey's Anatomyshow writer Elisabeth Finch admitted in December it was all a ruse.

"I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me," Elisabeth told The Ankler newsletter Dec. 7, adding, "I've never had any form of cancer."

Summed up Finch, who was placed on administrative leave from the ABC medical drama before eventually resigning, said, "What I did was wrong. Not okay. F--ked up. All the words."

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Kim Kardashian Admits—And Then Double Downs On—Why She Would "Eat Poop" to Look Younger

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Telling The New York Times the lengths she would go to for a more youthful appearance, the reality star cracked that she was willing to try just about anything.

"If you told me that I literally had to eat poop every single day and I would look younger, I might," she said in June. "I just might."

In a July 2022 interview with Allure, Kim said she was "kind of joking" about the comment, though the idea didn't seem too terrible.

"But now that I think about it," Kim added, "I would probably eat s--t if someone told me, ‘If you eat this bowl of poop every single day, you'll look younger.'"

How much could she make room for? "Maybe just a bite," she told the outlet. "I don't think I can do a whole bowl."

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The “Save Me” singer was asked about his most embarrassing moment during an April 2025 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show—and he definitely didn’t hold anything back.

“I pooped myself one time,” he admitted. “I did, I’m sorry.”

But to be fair, Jelly Roll (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) didn’t expect to deal such a lethal blow.

“I was confident it was all air,” he insisted. “I'm so sorry. I watched this crowd go from loving me to just being completely out.”

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