Louis Tomlinson

But I think,

We all looked up to him.

I don't think I would have been brave enough to say at that age when I was in the band.

I think I would have had too much pride.

But we all looked up to him massively for the reasons that I just stated.

He was vastly experienced before any of us had done anything.

um he was also like the safest pair of hands like in every sense of the word so like vocally interview music video you know like whatever it would be and he'd be like working and doing it like he would always be the safest pair of hands where you maybe if me and say in the back like either smoking a joint or doing something stupid he would always always have his eye on the ball which

ironically created more space for the, you know, when you've got someone who's willing to pick up the pieces and you've got young lads and,

Young lads don't reflect and go, oh, I can see he's picking up a lot of the pieces.

I'm going to do a bit more for him.

Well, no, you just see that.

Like my role in the band might have been to be disruptive and have conversations with record labels or management or whoever.

And that was for me to be disruptive and go against the grain.

Liam's role was the opposite, but equally, if not more important, to just keep everything going, you know, and be that safe pair of hands of keeping everything in check.

That's why from like a very young age, like he was called like the sensible one in the band, which I also don't think lived on him loads of favours mentally either.

He was wildly misunderstood.

Big time.

Big time, man.

Big time.

And oftentimes people maliciously misunderstood him.