Niall Horan Makes Sense of Love, Loss, and Growing Up

When Niall Horan was a kid, before he became a wildly famous pop star overnight, he would tune into a whimsical late-’90s children’s show called Bernard’s Watch. It was about a young boy who lived in the East Midlands of England and used a magical pocket watch to solve problems, or do whatever it was he felt like doing: listening to loud music, stealing car keys, playing pranks on his schoolteacher. “He pressed the button on the pocket watch and it would just stop time,” Horan, now 32, recalls in his signature drawn-out Irish brogue, smirking. “And he was the only one that could move.”