Hello, Harry.
Hello.
How are you?
They didn't know you were here.
They're very happy.
Oh, OK.
Thanks.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
[LAUGHS]
So I'm a huge fan of Harry's.
I went to go see--
he was At The Forum on Friday night.
Your show was so amazing.
Thank you very much.
It was incredible.
I can't wait to see the tour because that was just really
a one night thing for your album launch.
And it was like start to finish album.
Yes.
Yeah.
It was-- the album came out Friday.
So it was like a release kind of--
And it's going to be number one this week.
I'm telling you guys, if you haven't heard it yet,
it is so good.
Thank you.
It's amazing.
I'm so happy for you.
Now the last one you did after One Direction,
you went to Jamaica to write.
Yes.
And then this one, you went to Japan.
I spent some time in Japan.
I didn't write the whole thing there.
But you went to Japan for a month by yourself?
I did.
I took-- yeah.
I took like a--
By yourself?
Yeah.
What is that like?
I mean--
It was fun.
Do you speak Japanese?
By the time, I left, I could at least--
I could kind of blag my way through a conversation,
so people thought I spoke Japanese.
And now, if you're not like speaking it all the time,
it's--
Right.
It seems like a hard language to learn.
You kind of forget.
Yeah.
So obviously, you had traveled there
before with One Direction.
You'd been there.
So it was one of your favorite places?
That's why you went there?
Yeah.
I love it.
And I think before I went, I kind of just
realized I'd never really traveled on my own.
Because whenever I'd been traveling, when I was younger,
I went with my family, and then traveling everywhere
with the band.
And I kind of felt like I should probably
do something on my own.
So I just went, and walked around,
and saw some friends and stuff.
It was nice.
Oh, so you had friends there?
I have a few friends there, yeah.
OK.
That helps.
So you went to Jamaica.
Then you went here.
Does that inspire you to write in a different way?
What does that do for you when you--
I mean, obviously, traveling is important for all of us.
But how does that affect you creatively?
I think for me it's just a lot about not being in--
like so in the mix and kind of being
around a lot of distractions.
So even, honestly, being away from like all
your friends, where somebody will say, like,
do you want to come out to dinner?
Or something like that.
Which kind of obviously takes you out of the studio.
I think it's more-- for me, it's just about just
focusing on that one thing and not kind of getting distracted,
I guess.
Right.
And the inside of your album--
let's just take a look at this inside of the album.
You're so stylish, Harry.
Oh, thank you.
I just love the way you dress.
I love everything about you.
But let's just take a look.
Because sometimes you find lyrics.
And then sometimes you find this.
Right.
Oh, and it's bigger back there, as well.
Yeah.
That's what she said.
Yeah.
So I did the photos for the album with a British
photographer called Tim Walker, who I'm a really big fan of.
And I'd never really done a shoot like this.
Most of us haven't.
Yeah.
[LAUGHS] And we tried it, like, with some other stuff.
And it was kind of one of those things where he's like, OK.
This shirt's not really working.
So let's try it without the shirt.
And then it's like, oh, those trousers aren't really working.
So let's try it without the trousers.
And then he kind of looked at me.
And I was like, these pants aren't working, are they?
And he's like, no.
Yeah.
So that's how it worked out?
Yeah.
Clever, that he did it that way.
Yeah.
So, yeah, now I'm naked in that thing.
Yeah.
Now you're naked.
Yeah.
But I like it though.
Thank you.
I mean, you're not showing anything.
No.
It's fashion.
Yeah.
Now you were here, what?
Nothing.
OK.
Were you scared when you left?
You must have been.
When you left One Direction, because if that's
all you know and the success is the all of you together,
and then you go off on your own, I mean,
it has been unbelievably successful.
And especially, like I said, this
is going to be number one this week.
Aren't you just-- aren't you so proud of yourself?
Aren't you so happy?
I'm very happy.
Yeah.
I think coming out of that, I kind of tried
to like remind myself before getting
any expectations of the up about, you know,
just not like assuming anything.
Like, I don't know if the people are
going to come because it's not the band anymore,
stuff like that.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm just really happy.
Like, it makes me feel, obviously,
very great that people seem to be enjoying the music.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I mean, the people were camping out for a week before--
The Forum was Friday night.
People flew in from all over the world
and were there for a week outside,
waiting for that Friday night performance.
So that gives you an idea of how excited people are to see you.
I feel very lucky just to have such a dedicated group
of people.
Yeah.
They're amazing.
They're kind of surprising.
You can add me to that now.
I'm a dedicated fan.
Thank you.
I'm a huge fan.
All right.
We'll take a break.
More with Harry after this.