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He’s “Golden.” Harry Styles is celebrating his 27th birthday on Monday, February 1. The former One Direction member<\/a> has garnered a cult-like following over the years and his continued solo success has only made him a bigger star.<\/p>\n While he’s probably celebrating with new girlfriend, Olivia Wilde<\/a>, we’re honoring the British pop star\u2019s special day by taking a look back at some of the most insightful quotes he has shared over the years regarding his fashion<\/a>, music, sexuality and more. Check out 27 of the most interesting things he’s said in various interviews and other platforms below.<\/p>\n \u201cI think about it all the time and it kind of just reminds me how lucky I am to be doing it because I know there are hundreds of thousands of, if not millions of, musicians who are so far superior to me as a musician, and not everyone gets to do it,\u201d Styles told Howard Stern<\/a> of his success in 2020. \u201cI do think some people make their own luck, but I also think so much of it is about luck and timing because when I look at it there\u2019s no reason for it to have been me who got to do this, really.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to be viewed as a womanizer or whatever,\u201d he revealed in an interview with The Sun<\/em><\/a> in 2012. \u201cI don\u2019t like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it\u2019s nice to wake up in your own bed, isn\u2019t it?”<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m not half as busy as they make me out to be! A lot of the time, the way it\u2019s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way,\u2019 Styles told Cosmopolitan<\/em><\/a> in 2012. “But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.”<\/p>\n “When you’re writing songs, it’s impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be, you know, traveling or girls or anything,\u2019 Styles told E!<\/em><\/a> in 2013. \u2018You\u2019re always gonna draw inspiration for things that you\u2019re feeling, things that you\u2019ve felt. It\u2019s kind of impossible not to unless there\u2019s an exact scenario that you\u2019re trying to write a song for.”<\/p>\n “People tell me I’m a good singer. It’s normally my mum,” the then-16-year-old said when he auditioned for The X Factor<\/em> in the spring of 2010, performing Stevie Wonders’ “Isn’t She Lovely” a cappella. “Singing is what I want to do and if people who can make that happen for me think I shouldn’t be doing that, then it’s a major setback in my plans.”<\/p>\n Referring to ex girlfriend Taylor Swift’s songs, “Out of the Woods” and “Style,” assumed to be about him, Styles told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in 2017, “I’m lucky if everything helped create those songs. That’s what hits your heart. That’s the stuff that’s hardest to say, and it’s the stuff I talk least about. That’s the part that’s about the two people. I’m never going to tell anybody everything.”<\/p>\n “I like to separate my personal life and work,” Styles explained to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in 2017. “It helps, I think, for me to compartmentalize. It’s not about trying to make my career longer, like I’m trying to be this ‘mysterious character,’ because I’m not. When I go home, I feel like the same person I was at school. You can’t expect to keep that if you show everything. There’s the work and the personal stuff, and going between the two is my favorite s–t. It’s amazing to me.”<\/p>\n “I felt very naked for a while,” Styles admitted to Vogue<\/em><\/a> in 2017 about changing up his hair. “I was like yeah, I’ve gotta shave my hair off. It wasn’t a hard decision, it got made into a wig.”<\/p>\n “I didn\u2019t want to make the same music we were making in the band. Not because I didn\u2019t like it, I just wanted it to be a different thing,\u201d Styles shared to Howard Stern<\/a> in 2020 about the direction of his solo career after One Direction.<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t say I could fall in love at first sight, but maybe I just haven’t done that yet,” Styles told\u00a0 We Love Pop <\/a><\/em>magazine in 2013.<\/p>\n “I think both music and fashion, main influence was probably Shania Twain,” Styles told Entertainment Tonight<\/em> <\/a>in 2017. “Yeah, I think she’s amazing.”<\/p>\n “When you separate it it\u2019s easier to see it for what it is,” Styles told Vogue<\/em><\/a> in 2017, when asked how he balances fame and family. “When you let it become everything and that\u2019s your whole life, then it\u2019s easy to get a bit lost in it. I\u2019m lucky, I have amazing friends and my family\u2019s amazing so I think they make it easier to keep the separation between the two which makes it easier for me.\u201d<\/p>\n “The people that I looked up to in music \u2014 Prince and David Bowie and Elvis and Freddie Mercury and Elton John \u2014 they’re such showmen,” Styles told Vogue in 2020 about his gender-bending fashion. “As a kid, it was completely mind-blowing. Now I’ll put on something that feels really flamboyant, and I don’t feel crazy wearing it,” Styles said.<\/p>\n “I think if you’re making what you want to make, then ultimately no one can tell you you’re unsuccessful, because you’re doing what makes you happy,” he told NPR.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n In an interview with British GQ<\/em><\/a> for the magazine’s September 2013 issue, Styles said he was “pretty sure” he didn’t identify as bisexual. The comment was sparked by the interviewer asking Styles to address rumors about him and his friend, Nick Grimshaw, being in a relationship. After the singer said that they’re “just friends,” the interviewer asked: “So you’re not bisexual?” In response, Styles said, “Bisexual? Me? I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure I’m not.”<\/p>\n “Many borders are falling \u2014 in fashion, but also in music, films, and art,” Styles told L’Officiel Hommes<\/em><\/a> magazine in 2019. “I don’t think people are still looking for this gender differentiation. Even if the masculine and feminine exist, their limits are the subject of a game. We no longer need to be this or that. I think now, people are just trying to be good. In fashion and other fields, these parameters are no longer as strict as before, and it gives rise to great freedom. It’s stimulating.”<\/p>\n “What’s feminine and what’s masculine, what men are wearing and what women are wearing \u2014 it’s like there are no lines anymore,” he told The Face<\/em><\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n While appearing on the cover of Vogue<\/em><\/a> in a Gucci gown in 2020, Styles said “I think if you get something that you feel amazing in, it’s like a superhero outfit. Clothes are there to have fun with and experiment with and play with.”<\/p>\n Speaking to Variety<\/a> last spring about the pandemic, Styles says, \u201cIt\u2019s been a pause that I don\u2019t know if I would have otherwise taken. I think it\u2019s been pretty good for me to have a kind of stop, to look and think about what it actually means to be an artist, what it means to do what we do and why we do it. I lean into moments like this \u2014 moments of uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n “What women wear. What men wear. For me it’s not a question of that,” Styles told The Guardian<\/a> after attending the 2019 Met Gala in Gucci. “If I see a nice shirt and get told, ‘But it’s for ladies,’ I think: ‘Okaaaay? Doesn’t make me want to wear it less though. In terms of how I wanna dress… I want things to look a certain way. Not because it makes me look gay, or it makes me look straight, or it makes me look bisexual, but because I think it looks cool.<\/p>\n “I just think sexuality’s something that’s fun. Honestly? I can’t say I’ve given it any more thought than that,’ Styles told The Guardian<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n “If I could vote in America, I\u2019d vote with kindness,” Styles tweeted<\/a> back in October along with a video of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n “I’ve been struggling to put into words how grateful I am for everything that\u2019s happened over the last ten years, Styles wrote on Instagram<\/a> last summer, along with a photo of himself with his 1D band mates hugging on stage. “I\u2019ve seen things and places that I\u2019d only ever dreamed of when I was growing up. I\u2019ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with some of the most incredible people, and gained friendships that I know I will treasure for the rest of my life.”<\/p>\n “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\u2019t go,” Styles told The Sunday Times<\/em><\/a> on his sparing use of social media.<\/p>\n “There’s a freedom in the music that is so inspiring,” Styles told NPR<\/em><\/a> about his appreciation for the 1970s. If you go back and listen to so much of that music, they sound so fresh. It’s people doing what they wanted to do. Obviously, the music business has changed so much since then \u2014 there was a lot more of everybody hanging out together and playing songs, and I feel like music is a lot more competitive now.”<\/p>\n “You can tell far too much about a person by which monopoly piece they play as,” Styles tweeted<\/a> back 2014<\/p>\n![\"Harry](\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/02\/Styles-2019.jpg\")
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