Louis Tomlinson

And so you come third on the X Factor as a band when you're put together.

And then you signed at 19 years old to Simon Cowell's Psycho Music.

And it's crazy because when I think about you signing at 19 years old and I think about what happened in the preceding

five or six years, I mean, it is crazy.

I mean, it's only now outside of being in One Direction that I actually have a little bit of a concept of what happened and even, you know, the craziness of it because nobody has any context to it before it happens.

So we definitely, we felt like things were going really, really well.

But we also, there will have been part of us, especially in that first year, of just assuming this is what, you know, success looks like.

You know, a successful artist does these things.

And the first moment that I remember distinctly, actually, that...

I realized that maybe this was bigger than like, let's say like the average thing at the time.

We got booked on a support gig with a, like a Disney band called Big Time Rush.

And before that tour show, our manager, but our like senior manager, the kind of guy you only see, you know, like six gigs a year.

And that just happens to be Vegas and LA and all the best places in the world, you know.

And he sat us down.

It was like this dressing down.

It was like, look, this is what you need to expect from a gig like this.

Expect people to only know the singles.

And even if they know the singles, you know, like that's a real win.

They're not going to know the words to the album tracks.

It's going to be a very, very different show to what you expected.