“When I’d be home, it felt like, ‘Oh, it’s not safe for me to be out’. Then I had a girlfriend who was very outgoing and she was coming to London and I was like, ‘Oh, if we just sit in my house for three days, she’s gonna think I’m nuts’.
“So we walked everywhere, and it was this realisation for me: ‘Oh, it’s fine to be outside’. It kind of broke that thing. Now, it’s changed my life in such a big way, because it’s how you stay connected to the world.”
He added: “I read something about walking being the artist’s kind of perspective, because you’re at ground level and you see things that you just don’t see if you’re driving everywhere.”
Yorke applauded Styles’ decision not to hole himself up in a mansion surrounded by security guards, saying: “There are moments when you will feel vulnerable… I’ve had that. So it’s not easy.
“It’s not an easy decision to make, but it’s better than the alternative. I know people who got death threats and then wouldn’t leave the house and had security patrolling their house. You don’t want that.”