Overview
- Styles spoke at length with Zane Lowe as he promotes his fourth album, "Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally."
- He said the most genuine way to honor friends who have died is to live life as fully as possible.
- He described feeling pressure over how to show his mourning and said outsiders sometimes act as if they "own" part of his pain.
- He remembered Payne as a "super special" and kind friend with many similarities to him, which made the loss especially hard.
- Payne died at 31 in October 2024 after a fall from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony, and an autopsy found high levels of alcohol and cocaine.