Harry Styles Quotes

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I always have stress.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

Some people feel pressure; some people don't.

I would sit in class, and I would just cry. Like I don't even know why. It wasn't my school's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. I just didn't like the environment. I totally had too much on my plate. At this point I wasn't even doing YouTube yet, mind you.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.