Rod Stewart: “He’s a lovely man. He couldn’t be kinder, and a very funny guy. He’s brilliant.”
Paul Rudd:“Harry has something…There is something intriguing and interesting and cool about him.”
Ariana Grande: “He’s very funny. He’s very silly. Very sweet, very professional. But never too serious– like I would be singing in the booth and I would cut a vocal and he’d be like ‘Oooh that was terrible, you should try it again.’ He was very nice. A very very sweet guy.”
“I think Brits have this mentality of, not us, but like Brits, lads, who aren’t in music, I think they have this mentality of when they meet guys who are really popular they want to hate them, and with Harry it’s just impossible. Like he’s the nicest, most down to earth guy.
“Harry Styles is the coolest guy on this planet, a thousand percent. He’s just you know when someone walks into a room you just go ‘that kid’s got it’. He literally does walk into a room and everyone just stops. And it’s not just ‘cause he’s famous, he just has an aura about him… It’s an aura. It’s a thing… He’s got a really cool name as well; Harry Styles. It’s almost like he was born to be a pop star. He’s just perfect isn’t he?”
Chris Martin:
“Harry has come to a couple of our shows, and he’s a sweet guy.”
“He’s so lovely… He’s so handsome”
“This song was written by the most beautiful man in the world, Harry Styles.”
Gavin DeGraw: “I’d only heard good things about Harry from other people that I knew… He was great. We got in the studio and he was really respectful and nice. I played for a second; I sang an opening line and he immediately
followed it up with another line. A few hours later we had the majority
of a song completed; it’s beautiful.”
Hilary Duff: “Secretly, I really love Harry Styles.”
Kodaline: “He’s a cool dude, he’s a good writer.”
Kate Mara: [Jimmy Kimmel: You’re a fan of One Direction?] “Yeah I mean, have you seen Harry Styles’ face?”
“You know I have a thing for Harry Styles. He looks like a young Mick Jagger. He has a good mouth. He’s cute. He’s a 10.”
“He’s a beautiful thing, isn’t he. I won’t eat him. I actually gave him an award at some show, so I got to give him a little squeeze. [His hair] smells like roses and tropical lotions mixed with butterflies.”
Alexa Chung: “The thing is though he’s pretty amazing. He’s got a magnetic quality about him and if he looks at you it’s like you’re staring into the face of a lighthouse.”
Matty Healy: “That whole world is crazy. But that Harry Styles guy, he’s really sweet, he’s a really nice guy.”
Meghan Trainor: “He’s an amazing dude, he’s really chill. I think he’s an amazing writer. He’s really talented.”
Rihanna: “It’s so natural for him. I had watched their videos and I remember thinking ‘wow he’s a star.’ He seems very sure– like he had been doing this before.”
Dylan O’Brien: “I love Harry Styles. That dude’s the man.”
Emma Roberts: "Literally, my little sister and I talk about One Direction all day,“ I’m scared if someone ever saw my phone, I’m like ‘delete these messages!’ It’s like we’re talking about something bad. It’s like Harry Styles, Harry Styles, Harry Styles.”
Alana Haim: “He came to our show at The Troubadour, but we had never met him and we were so interested because you hear so many things about Harry Styles and really, he’s just a nice guy. He really is just nice and really appreciates music. He really just loves music and seeing live music. I was just so surprised that he came to The Troubadour which is such a small venue - and once one Haim fan saw him it was kinda like Harry-palooza, there was this HUGE group around him. Literally, I just can’t even imagine what he goes through every day but he really is the nicest person in the world. I would say nothing bad about Harry Styles, he was so nice, he was so happy to be there and happy to see our band. He is very nice… and I would say that there was a friendship, I think he’s very cool. I would be down. He’s just so busy, I can’t even imagine what our friendship would be [like] - probably running into each other at some place. But he is really nice and he is so nice to his fans and really is just a regular guy.”
Kris Jenner: “We’ve spent some time together and he’s really really really funny. Oh my goodness, he’s one of the funniest guys I’ve ever met. He’s a great guy.“
Kelly Clarkson: “He was so nice. Honestly, he walked up to me out of nowhere at Billboard awards, and no one does that. Like, in country music they do in the states, but in pop music people are very like too cool for school most of the time. So I thought it was really–he’s such a nice gentleman and he was so kind. I wrote a song for them on their first record and so it was really nice, he came up and thanked me and he was just such a gentleman.”
Mick Jagger: “He’s got it going on. I know him, he comes to see me in lots of shows. And yeah, I can see the influence. I like him. He’s very decent.”
Jamie Lawson: [re: Harry coming to his sound checks.] “It would be thousands of empty seats and Harry.”
Kelly Osbourne: “Harry is a really nice, normal guy considering the situation that he’s in. You’d expect him to be a little more affected but he’s not.”
Duran Duran: “Harry Styles seems to be a decent chap. That makes me think he is handling it all very well.”
Louis Walsh: “Harry’s a star. He knows how to work the room and he’s nice to everybody. I’ve heard nothing but good things about Harry.”
Lea Michele: “He’s our modern day Mick Jagger.”
Cillian Murphy: “He’s a sweetheart. He’s a really really lovely kid. Very charismatic, and we’ve had a lot of fun.”
John Legend: “We got together for a few hours and wrote what I think is a really lovely song. I’d love to write with him again as he is a very great guy and very talented. He has some really great lyrical ideas and is a very good songwriter.”
Ronnie Wood: “Harry will be great solo. He should enjoy it and I think he’ll do well.”
Rita Ora: "I mean, me and the whole music industry probably have a crush on him. I just think he’s funny and cute!“
Johnny McDaid: “Harry is a really prolific artist and a super-talented guy. He’s really authentic and he has an incredible voice, so we’ve been writing a lot of songs. We’ve been writing songs for years together. I’m really excited by the way he’s sounding at the minute, he’s such a talent. He is a really great guy. I think he will surprise people. I don’t know much about what he’s going to do or his plans but he’s a really lovely guy.”
Ryan Tedder:
“Harry’s a good guy. I wrote a song with him, I love it. He actually really impressed me as a writer and he’s a great singer.
“He’s a phenomenally talented writer. You know they say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but clearly the man has taste in a number of areas and that also is true with writing. He’s just a chill guy. I don’t think I’ve met anyone with that level of fame that is that unaffected by it. I would love to write with him in the future for no other reason than he is one of the chillest dudes I’ve hung with and down to earth.”
Mark Rylance: “He is one handsome fella with an incredible smile and eyes. What’s really surprised me is he’s really witty, really funny — he really makes me laugh. He’s been ever so brave, not making any fuss. He seems remarkable … one of those people [who has] — Sean Penn has it too — a kind of panache. I look at them and think, ‘How did you get that?’ But he has got a lovely, lovely character. It’s a gift.”
