Louis Tomlinson

And I definitely drank quite a bit when I was when I was in the band.

But I think an important distinction post show would be I'd smoke my weed and go back to my tour bus and I'd go and smoke my weed and Zayn would smoke with me too.

I hope he doesn't mind me saying that.

I'm sure he won't.

And that was great.

And actually, like, you know, people do things for different reasons.

And that was my vice.

That was my choice.

Now,

the reason why that kind of suited my brain at that time was i've just had all this noise in my head i've just had this crazy experience on stage and that's the noise that you kind of need to quiet down sometimes so what we would do is we'd get back on the tour bus we'd play call of duty zombies we'd smoke our weed and like that's all we'd think about and that's all we do and then we get into cliche stoner chats of deep conversation probably ufos you know all that kind of shit and

And as daft as that might look and feel, again, it's our normality.

It's creating the normality on tour.

It's a version of what our friends were doing back home as well.

But also it just, it was such a lovely way to kind of debrief from those moments, away from the manicness.

You've just got this kind of really subdued, nice environment.

The juxtaposition actually felt quite nice.

If you could go back to the day that you signed the contract with Psycho, what is the advice that 33-year-old Louis would give 18, 19-year-old Louis?

That is a really, really big question.

I think I would say to be confident in the earlier years because the older I get, the more I realize most people in their earlier years of doing said thing are to a degree faking it.

And I think for a long time I was just thinking, well, you know, I didn't spend my life as a young lad thinking I was going to be a singer, so I'm playing catch-up and all of those things.