“I think this is a good point in the book to talk to you about the pretty serious confidence issues I suffered as a result of an early problem I had on stage. As many of you know, we appeared on a big Saturday night TV show in the UK and I wasn’t happy at all with my vocal. After the performance I saw some comments online that I struggled with. In the documentary we made during this time there’s a well-known piece to camera where I explain why that incident upset me so much. and I think what I said is pretty self-explanatory. However, what I didn’t know then was that ultimately that experience would turn into a positive - it became a great learning curve for me. Yes, at the time i was gutted and those comments online really upset me, genuinely. I’ll be totally honest here and say that it all played on my mind for a long time. Part of the issue was that we had done loads of TV shows so much better. This was easily the worst I had done, so that was frustrating, but it was the only performance people talked about for a while. I’m naturally a fairly confident person - in most situations, but not all. That whole episode was a big knock to my confidence for quite some time. I now know why it happened. At that point any natural confidence I had in myself was just being taken over by nerves, because I’d no idea back then how to channel and control my anxiety.”

— Harry, Who We Are Autobiography +