Louis Tomlinson

So it was originally pictures that.

So I was thinking, I remember saying like, well, if I'm going to try and do some stuff on my own, and at this point, I didn't even know what I was going to do.

I was like, it'd be good to know how long this break is going to be for.

So let's speculate.

A year, two years, five years, 10 years, 15 years, whatever.

I never really got an answer to that question, which I understand now because truthfully, I don't think the people or person involved was brave enough to answer that question deep down.

I think they probably knew the reality and that's why it was tough.

And does Simon try and persuade you back into the band?

Let me say that by this point,

And I'd say Simon was aware of this, but maybe not quite so aware.

Because we're a band, after about two years of One Direction, nobody, absolutely nobody could tell us shit.

Now, we were nice boys.

We were never, like, rude or anything like that.

But, like...

So like if Simon had just, we didn't have that, he wasn't, he might have had that relationship prior, like back in the 90s when all that stuff was kind of prevalent.

But I think we'd always had our own kind of confidence like that.

So he was never involved in those kind of decision makings.

In fact, he was smart enough to realise that that would rub us up the wrong way.

Makes sense.

And then it ends and your life goes from absolutely crazy to less crazy.