Louis Tomlinson

So if you're still unpacking all that information of who you are as a person, as an adult, which we all were post One Direction, it's near impossible to point and go, this is who I want to be as an artist.

Because essentially, it's just a metaphor for who you are as a person, or at least the best stuff is.

Liam would be someone who, candidly, I could say to him really honestly, like, bro, fucking hell, I miss being in the band.

And we could have a really honest conversation like that.

Whereas...

And I don't mean this in any kind of way, but if I'd said that to any of the boys, I'd be worried that they might think, oh, things aren't going well in his solo life, you know.

Whereas Liam, I never had to worry about those things.

It was like brothers like that.

He wore his heart on his sleeve, didn't he?

So Liam was Liam.

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

And I just, it's really fresh that.

It's a really, really cool way of living.

Because we all say, even like I would like to say, I wear my heart on my sleeve.

But, you know, there's still 10% of me that's God in the right places.

He certainly had his way of being.

I like to.

I do, as we were saying, I do wonder if that made him slightly more susceptible to the pressures.

Because sometimes, you know, if you can put on a second face,

yeah yeah yeah what's helped me in this job and there's no truer time that that kind of shows itself it's me as a parent is there is a real distinction this is me there is me at work and there is me not work basically so either being a parent or being a friend or a partner or whatever that's always helped me to have that kind of distinction of you know when i'm dad to freddie